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Single Idea 21047
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
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Full Idea
For slavery to be just, according to Aristotle, two conditions must be met: it must be necessary, and it must be natural.
Gist of Idea
Aristotle thought slavery is just if it is both necessary and natural
Source
report of Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE]) by Michael J. Sandel - Justice: What's the right thing to do? 08
Book Ref
Sandel,Michael J.: 'Justice: what's the right thing to do?' [Penguin 2010], p.201
A Reaction
Aristotle thought it met both conditions, but no one now thinks it meets either condition.
The
29 ideas
with the same theme
[allowing workers to be unpaid and owned by others]:
21047
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Aristotle thought slavery is just if it is both necessary and natural
[Aristotle, by Sandel]
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21358
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Natural slaves are those naturally belonging to another, or who can manage no more than labouring
[Aristotle]
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17227
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Slavery is a disgraceful crime
[Spinoza]
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19923
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Slavery is not just obedience, but acting only in the interests of the master
[Spinoza]
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19870
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If you try to enslave me, you have declared war on me
[Locke]
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19883
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Slaves captured in a just war have no right to property, so are not part of civil society
[Locke]
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19913
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A master forfeits ownership of slaves he abandons
[Locke]
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20000
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Slavery is entirely bad; the master abandons the virtues, and they are pointless in the slave
[Montesquieu]
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20003
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Slaves are not members of the society, so no law can forbid them to run away
[Montesquieu]
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20006
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The demand for slavery is just the masters' demand for luxury
[Montesquieu]
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19775
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People must be made dependent before they can be enslaved
[Rousseau]
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19784
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Enslaved peoples often boast of their condition, calling it a state of 'peace'
[Rousseau]
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19785
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If the child of a slave woman is born a slave, then a man is not born a man
[Rousseau]
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19841
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Sometimes full liberty is only possible at the expense of some complete enslavement
[Rousseau]
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19847
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We can never assume that the son of a slave is a slave
[Rousseau]
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21783
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State slavery is a phase of education, moving towards a full culture
[Hegel]
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21784
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Slavery is unjust, because humanity is essentially free
[Hegel]
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22776
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Slaves are partly responsible for their own condition
[Hegel]
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21789
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Slaves have no duties because they have no rights
[Hegel]
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21486
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Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing
[Schopenhauer]
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5285
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Slavery cannot be abolished without the steam-engine
[Marx/Engels]
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22670
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Slavery undermines the morals and energy of a society
[Tocqueville]
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24134
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There is always slavery, whether we like it or not
[Nietzsche]
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14819
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Slavery cannot be judged by our standards, because the sense of justice was then less developed
[Nietzsche]
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23158
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Slavery began the divorce between the work and the purposes of the worker
[Russell]
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23811
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If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery
[Weil]
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23868
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The pleasure of completing tasks motivates just as well as the whip of slavery
[Weil]
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7353
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The Pharisees undermined slavery, by giving slaves responsibility and status in law courts
[Johnson,P]
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18649
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If everyone owned himself, that would prevent slavery
[Kymlicka]
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