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" But is there any thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature ? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact.... "
Dialogues of Plato - Page 6
by Benjamin Jowett - 1899
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The Politics of Aristotle, Volume 1

Aristotle - 1885 - 588 pages
...is not all slavery a violation of nature ? y There is no difficulty in answering this question, on 2 grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects — for example, to rule over men is better 3 than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better...
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Introduction and translation

Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 468 pages
...all slavery a violation of nature ? nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on a grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects — for example, to rule over men is better 3 than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better...
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Introduction and translation

Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 466 pages
...all slavery a violation of nature ? nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on 2 grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...for subjection, others for rule. And whereas there arc many kinds both of rulers and subjects, that rule is the better which is exercised over better...
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The Politics of Aristotle, Volume 1

Aristotle - 1885 - 460 pages
...both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only i \ necessary, but expedient ; from the hour of their...rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects — for example, to rule over men is better 3 than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better...
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The Politics of Aristotle: Introduction and translation

Aristotle - 1885 - 476 pages
...that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary, but expedient ; from Ae hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection,...rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects — for example, to rule over men is better 3 than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better...
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Greece in the Age of Pericles

Arthur James Grant - 1893 - 362 pages
...disposition in men, so that some are naturally born to rule and others to be ruled. " Is there any one intended by nature to be a slave and for whom such...some are marked out for subjection, others for rule. ... In all things which form a composite whole and which are made up of parts, a distinction between...
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A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church ...

Philip Schaff, Henry Wace - 1895 - 460 pages
...violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering Oils question, on grounds both of reason and fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled,...some are marked out for subjection, others for rule. ... Where, then, there is such a difference as that between soul and body, or between men and nnimals...
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Dialogues of Plato: Containing The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, and ...

Plato - 1899 - 514 pages
...example, is not only of use ; but something else is made by it, whereas of a garment g Plato in Pol. 358 E foil. h Horn. II. xviii. 376. or of a bed there...rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects — for example, to rule over men is better than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better...
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The Process of Government; a Study of Social Pressures

Arthur Fisher Bentley - 1908 - 550 pages
...relations of slaves and freemen ? Slaves, he says, are slaves by nature. Freemen are freemen by nature : "From the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule."1 "He who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, reason, is a slave by...
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The Primary Causes of Social Inequality

Gunnar Landtman - 1909 - 170 pages
...itself. nFor that some should rule, and others be ruled", he says in the First Book of his Politics, nis a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the...some are marked out for subjection, others for rule." 1) The great Rousseau, who will always be thought of as one of the warmest hearted dreamers that have...
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