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Aristotle, Constant, and the Distribution of Time

Political Theory 101

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What's the Difference Between Collectivism and Individualism?

For hobs, what distinguishes the artificial person of the state from natural persons like you and me is that natural persons are self sufficient in some sense. And so i guess that's one neat contrast between the collectivism of the ancients versus the individualism of the moderns. Yeh, it's settin an interesting contrast. I i think, as we've illustrated in this episode, constant was able to come up with ways of getting rid of some very overt forms of slavery, but he wasn't necessarily able to to get to the the root of it. So, and maybe that's because he, maybe maybe that'sBecause we didn't have the technology to do it.

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