The Greek View of Life
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"There is a certain mutual profit and kindness, " says Aristotle, " between master and slave, in all cases where the relation is natural, not merely imposed from without by convention or force. " * And Plato insists on the duty of neither insulting nor outraging a slave, but treating him rather with even greater fairness than if he were in a position of equality.
Still, there can be no doubt that the Greek conception of slavery is one of the points in which their view of hfe runs most counter t...o our own. Centuries of Christ- ianity have engendered in us the conviction, or rather, the instinct, that men are equal at least to this extent, 'Arist. Pol. I. 7. 1255 b 12 ARTISANS AND SLAVES 75 that no one has a right explicitly to make of another a mere passive instrument of his will — that every man, in short, must be regarded as an end in himself. Yet even here the divergence between the Greek and the modem view is less extreme than it appears at first sight. For the modern man, in spite of his perfectly genuine belief in equality (in the sense in which we have just defined the word), does nevertheless, when he is confronted with racial differences, recognise degrees of inferiority so extreme, that he is practically driven into the Aristotelian position that some men are naturally slaves.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"There is a certain mutual profit and kindness, " says Aristotle, " between master and slave, in all cases where the relation is natural, not merely imposed from without by convention or force. " * And Plato insists on the duty of neither insulting nor outraging a slave, but treating him rather with even greater fairness than if he were in a position of equality.
Still, there can be no doubt that the Greek conception of slavery is one of the points in which their view of hfe runs most counter t...o our own. Centuries of Christ- ianity have engendered in us the conviction, or rather, the instinct, that men are equal at least to this extent, 'Arist. Pol. I. 7. 1255 b 12 ARTISANS AND SLAVES 75 that no one has a right explicitly to make of another a mere passive instrument of his will — that every man, in short, must be regarded as an end in himself. Yet even here the divergence between the Greek and the modem view is less extreme than it appears at first sight. For the modern man, in spite of his perfectly genuine belief in equality (in the sense in which we have just defined the word), does nevertheless, when he is confronted with racial differences, recognise degrees of inferiority so extreme, that he is practically driven into the Aristotelian position that some men are naturally slaves.
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