Aristotle's treatment of politics property begins, not with a discussion of elections and public administration but rather with a treatment of property, and not real (land) or personal (movable) property but rather persons as property, or slaves. Wha
an, as he puts it, "living well" (28). One's manner of life has for Aristotle a moral/ethical content that should not be minimized. It explains his characterization of slaves as "intended (like all the instruments of the household) for action, and not for production" (13).
For Aristotle, slavery simply is so, a given of found experience and opaque to challenge. The justice or injustice of slavery, which he acknowledges is at issue for some (13), is irrelevant to a larger point that as an instrumental component of the well-managed household (= structure of human experience), the slave serves purposes aimed at the realization of the good life for the rational human being who is the citizen of the community. But otherwise Aristotle describes the slave as a being not quite human and certainly not eligible for citizenship, or active participation in the political life of the community, not so much on psychoemotional grounds as on logical ones. The work of citize
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