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Page xi
... superior in power to the average understanding of the commentator or interpreter . We cannot be sure that any single sentence of the Politics proceeded from the pen of Aris- totle , but this is no reason for doubting the genuineness of ...
... superior in power to the average understanding of the commentator or interpreter . We cannot be sure that any single sentence of the Politics proceeded from the pen of Aris- totle , but this is no reason for doubting the genuineness of ...
Page xvi
... man are better and better off than wild ones . For this rule of the superior by nature is the preservation of the subject or inferior . And the same principle applies to slaves , but there is a difference : xvi ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS .
... man are better and better off than wild ones . For this rule of the superior by nature is the preservation of the subject or inferior . And the same principle applies to slaves , but there is a difference : xvi ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS .
Page xvii
... superior ; while others distinguish between justice and virtue , and assert justice to be benevolence . If these two propositions are simply opposed , the result is an absurdity . For the truth of a third proposition [ which combines ...
... superior ; while others distinguish between justice and virtue , and assert justice to be benevolence . If these two propositions are simply opposed , the result is an absurdity . For the truth of a third proposition [ which combines ...
Page xxi
... superior , ' must be combined . We are interested to remark that in the age of Aristotle there were some Greeks who would have maintained that slave - hunting was a lawful employment , and that there were also anti - slavery ...
... superior , ' must be combined . We are interested to remark that in the age of Aristotle there were some Greeks who would have maintained that slave - hunting was a lawful employment , and that there were also anti - slavery ...
Page liv
... superior of the good man . For every citizen in a free state should learn how to become a statesman by being first a simple citizen , just as he would learn the duties of a general by being under the orders of a general . Yet the two ...
... superior of the good man . For every citizen in a free state should learn how to become a statesman by being first a simple citizen , just as he would learn the duties of a general by being under the orders of a general . Yet the two ...
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