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Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Roger Scruton and Aristotle

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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
21047 Aristotle thought slavery is just if it is both necessary and natural [Aristotle, by Sandel]
21358 Natural slaves are those naturally belonging to another, or who can manage no more than labouring [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 6. Political freedom
20092 One principle of liberty is to take turns ruling and being ruled [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
2833 Equality is obviously there to help people who do not get priority in the constitution [Aristotle]
2830 We can claim an equal right to aristocratic virtue, as well as to wealth or freedom [Aristotle]
2834 It is always the weak who want justice and equality, not the strong [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 2. Political equality
22550 It is dreadful to neither give a share nor receive a share [Aristotle]
22568 Faction is for inferiors to be equal, and equals to become superior [Aristotle]
22569 The Heraeans replaced election with lot, to thwart campaigning [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
22540 Wealth could be quickly leveled by only the rich giving marriage dowries [Aristotle]
2814 Phaleas proposed equality of property, provided there is equality of education [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
2828 Law is intelligence without appetite [Aristotle]
5653 A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
22537 Property should be owned privately, but used communally [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
22573 The virtue of justice may be relative to a particular constitution [Aristotle]
2825 The good is obviously justice, which benefits the whole community, and involves equality in some sense [Aristotle]
22527 Justice is the order in a political community [Aristotle]
22547 Justice is equality for equals, and inequality for unequals [Aristotle]
21044 For Aristotle, debates about justice are debates about the good life [Aristotle, by Sandel]
23916 The best cure for mutual injustice is friendship [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / a. Legal system
22556 Laws that match people's habits are more effective than mere written rules [Aristotle]
2806 Man is the worst of all animals when divorced from law and justice [Aristotle]
2816 If it is easy to change the laws, that makes them weaker [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / b. Rule of law
22554 It is said that we should not stick strictly to written law, as it is too vague [Aristotle]
22551 Correct law should be in control, with rulers only deciding uncertain issues [Aristotle]
2827 It is preferable that law should rule rather than any single citizen [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law
5246 Natural justice is the same everywhere, and does not (unlike legal justice) depend on acceptance [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / d. Legal positivism
7592 For positivists law is a matter of form, for naturalists it is a matter of content [Scruton]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime
1660 It is noble to avenge oneself on one's enemies, and not come to terms with them [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
2840 The whole state should pay for the worship of the gods [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
22588 A city has a single end, so education must focus on that, and be communal, not private [Aristotle]
2847 The aim of serious childhood play is the amusement of the complete adult [Aristotle]
11150 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it [Aristotle]
2811 A state is plural, and needs education to make it a community [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
3037 Aristotle said the educated were superior to the uneducated as the living are to the dead [Aristotle, by Diog. Laertius]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
5150 Intellectual virtue arises from instruction (and takes time), whereas moral virtue result from habit [Aristotle]
2842 Men learn partly by habit, and partly by listening [Aristotle]
11241 Wise men aren't instructed; they instruct [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
2844 Abortions should be procured before the embryo has acquired life and sensation [Aristotle]
7587 The issue of abortion seems insoluble, because there is nothing with which to compare it [Scruton]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
5228 A suicide embraces death to run away from hardships, rather than because it is a fine deed [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality
18554 Prostitution is wrong because it hardens the soul, since soul and body are one [Scruton]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights
4296 Brutal animal sports are banned because they harm the personality of the watcher [Scruton]
4291 Letting your dog kill wild rats, and keeping rats for your dog to kill, are very different [Scruton]
4263 Many of the stranger forms of life (e.g. worms) interest us only as a species, not as individuals [Scruton]
4268 Animals command our sympathy and moral concern initially because of their intentionality [Scruton]
4276 An animal has individuality if it is nameable, and advanced animals can respond to their name [Scruton]
4277 I may avoid stepping on a spider or flower, but fellow-feeling makes me protect a rabbit [Scruton]
4278 Lucky animals are eaten by large predators, the less lucky starve, and worst is death by small predators [Scruton]
4279 We can easily remove the risk of suffering from an animal's life, but we shouldn't do it [Scruton]
4289 Sheep and cattle live comfortable lives, and die an enviably easy death [Scruton]
4292 Concern for one animal may harm the species, if the individual is part of a bigger problem [Scruton]
4293 Introducing a natural means of controlling animal population may not be very compassionate [Scruton]
4294 Animals are outside the community of rights, but we still have duties towards them [Scruton]
4295 We favour our own animals over foreign ones because we see them as fellow citizens [Scruton]
4288 Many breeds of animals have needs which our own ancestors planted in them [Scruton]