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Comment: “Slavery is natural and beneficial both for the master and the slave.” (Aristotle)

  • UPSC 1996
  • Western Political Thought

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In Politics Book I, chapters 3–7, Aristotle answers those who held that slavery exists by law only and is therefore unjust. He argues that some men are by nature free, and others slaves, and that for these latter slavery is both expedient and right. The doctrine fails on its own premises, yet matters as the…

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