
Aristotle, Constant, and the Distribution of Time
Political Theory 101
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Is There a Link Between Individuality and Collectivity?
In constante's day, at the beginning of industrial capitalism, for giving everyone aristotelian freedom wasn't remotely on the horizon. There's a link there that er constant naturalizes wage slavery in the same way that aristotle naturalizes chattel slavery. For both they're not really motivated by the intuition that people can be naturally slavish. What they're really saying is that it's expedient to have these arrangements. And i think you also will see that in marks, because when you talk about the markes conception of human nature, it's very much what a rent calls homo fabr man,. Is as someone who does work, which frustrates a rent
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