Redpill me on Aristotle's Politics1.) I don't understand his thinking on slavery. He seems to be saying "some are slaves by nature, but due to historical accident we have many slaves by convention." He doesn't actually advocate for freeing slaves who are not naturally slavish, or am I misunderstanding him/missing something? He doesn't provide any mechanism for insuring that the naturally slavish are actually slaves in his state, or that the naturally free are actually free - unless maybe he thought his education system would make all the citizens worthy of freedom?2.) Aristotle restricts the size of the state radically. He thinks Babylon is absurdly oversized with 500k citizens. So, how do you think what he says could be relevant to us in the modern world with massive nation-states, many of which are larger than the largest empires of his time? Could you call him a "localist" in the modern sense?3.) Do you think Aristotle would have voted for Harris or Trump? Why?
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>>24116192>1.) I don't understand his thinking on slavery. He seems to be saying "some are slaves by nature, but due to historical accident we have many slaves by convention." He doesn't actually advocate for freeing slaves who are not naturally slavish, or am I misunderstanding him/missing something? He doesn't provide any mechanism for insuring that the naturally slavish are actually slaves in his state, or that the naturally free are actually free - unless maybe he thought his education system would make all the citizens worthy of freedom?Aristotle doesn't, to my recollection, say anything about the abolition of those who are made slaves by convention. Such a recommendation would've caused him to runafoul many, both oligarchs AND democrats, who owned slaves in Athens and afar, and there would've been no feasible way, to him, to change that all at once when every city, in Hellas and elsewhere, made slaves of conquered peoples. He's satisfied to leave it at showing his students in the Lyceum that the nature of slavery is this kind of thing, and that one may only be naturally slavish in certain senses, and allow those students to figure out for themselves how to treat any slaves they might have.He doesn't offer a "mechanism for insuring that the naturally slavish are actually slaves in his state," because he's not talking about "his state," but states that actually exist, albeit with clear preferences among the kinds of regimes that might exist. If there were to be a standard, however, I think he's sufficiently clear that it has to be something like the power to deliberate over matters in one's life, where the lack of such a power marks one as someone too slavish to live their life exercising their rationality; they need to be told what to do, because they lack the power to even make poor decisions (though, as Aristotle notes, they must have some virtues in order to be any good as slaves).I don't think he thought the education he provided would be equally emancipatory for all, nor does he appear to harbor such hopes.>2.) Aristotle restricts the size of the state radically. He thinks Babylon is absurdly oversized with 500k citizens. So, how do you think what he says could be relevant to us in the modern world with massive nation-states, many of which are larger than the largest empires of his time? Could you call him a "localist" in the modern sense?His relevance can perhaps be seen in how empires and large cities throughout history degrade; a population under a single kind of rule only lasts to the extent that everyone more or less agrees on what their public good consists of. In ordinary life today, we see the tensions that readily arise between differently populated states and provinces.>3.) Do you think Aristotle would have voted for Harris or Trump? Why?Aristotle isn't ignorant of the possibility of bad laws being made, but he's very skeptical about changing laws and customs too much. So probably Trump.
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Politics is human organization is authority and dependence. Based Aristotle justifying slavery on page 1.News flash, wagies are slaves.
