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Aristotle's Politics | Book 1, Part 1

Philosophy for the People

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Aristotle and the Master Slave Relationship

Aristotle says the household is like a finger. If you cut it off, it will rot. And does anybody think that that's any different from the way that our various elites actually think, right? No, no, I don't think it is at all, right? Right. So what do you get there? What is a household? It's the sexual union union of men and women and their children with the master slave union for Aristotle. Put those together in composition,. Now you have a higher level of political order, which is the household. But so no, none of these things are substances in themselves because they are not self-sufficient.

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