 ... 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. For that some should...  The Politics of Aristotle - Page 7by Aristotle - 1885 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 482 pages
...grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth,...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... | |
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 464 pages
...fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary^'-EuTexpeciiej1tL; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out...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... | |
 | Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 466 pages
...grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary, but expedient ; from the hour of their...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... | |
 | Arthur James Grant - 1893 - 366 pages
...grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient : from the hour of their...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... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Henry Wace - 1895 - 460 pages
...grounds both of reason and fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled, is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth...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... | |
 | Plato - 1899 - 514 pages
...grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary, but expedient ; from the hour of their...subjects — for example, to rule over men is better than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better which is executed by better workmen ; and where one... | |
 | Benjamin Jowett - 1899 - 480 pages
...grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Gunnar Landtman - 1909 - 170 pages
...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 hour of their birth,...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... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 618 pages
...grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth,...subjects— for example, to rule over men is better than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better which is executed by better workmen; and where one... | |
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