Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
New Books in Literary Studies
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Aristotle's Argument for Natural Slavery
Aristotle's teaching of so-called natural slavery or the natural slave students are fresh they encounter that as freshmen. But I think the way we handle that is say okay look Aristotle is saying something we don't agree with passionately but let's first understand where he's coming from. So it's not based on race or any kind of sort of inferiority that belongs to a particular group. It's based on a recognition that there are people for whatever reason, who are not capable of mastering things that need to be mastered in themselves.
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