Why did Aristotle believe in natural slavery?

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Aristotle wrote Politics as a criticism of Plato's Republic, after having been his student for 20 years. Aristotle especially disagrees with Plato's view that only knowledge and perfect forms count. He would criticize Plato's view that women and children should be held in the perfect state and that there should be no private property. These major differences between both authors come from their different approaches. Plato was using inductive reasoning: leaving from his own assumptions on justice then describing the city afterward, meanwhile Aristotle was having an empirical reasoning as he was starting from the components of the city to reach its whole. We will then see that it is this particular approach that may excuse slavery to Aristotle.

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[...] At the end, natural and conventional slavery do not seem to go against one another. The natural slave has lack of deliberation and judgment and has the body made for servile tasks meanwhile conventional slavery can be unjust and is the result of customs. CONCLUSION Aristotle would make definitely scandal at our times by promoting natural slavery but one shall replace the writings in the Ancient Greece context where slavery was used at a great extent, without being a problem for the non-slaves. [...]

[...] Aristotle may finally not have tried to promote the use of slavery as a mandatory practice in the polis but tried to legitimize a practice. Keyt, David. Miller, Fred D. Jr. [...]

[...] The slave is himself belonging to another man just as he belongs to other instruments to perform his duties. However, the slave is actually supposed to benefit from the situation as he has not the ability rule over himself, his master does it for him. The situation more looks like symbiosis between both individuals. Just as in the human body, one has the body and the other is bringing the brain and soul. He therefore explains that some individuals are fated to rule over others, such as the Soul is ruling over the body: . [...]

[...] That convention comes from the ability of one man or group of men to be more violent than another, then the winner can take what used to belong to the loser, its people included. This form of slavery seems unjust to Aristotle as it is only based on principles of force. Here, what counts to Aristotle is to find some notion of justice in slavery. He says that if based on a principle of excellence then there is legitimacy for the ruler to rule over the slave but whenever this principle is based on force then slavery becomes unjust (1255a10-25). Nowadays, slavery by convention still seems to exist. [...]

[...] Why does Aristotle believe in natural slavery? INTRODUCTION Aristotle wrote The Politics as a criticism of Plato's Republic, after having been his student for 20 years. Aristotle especially disagrees with Plato's view that only knowledge and perfect forms count, he would criticize the Plato's view that women and children should be held in common in the perfect state and that there should be no private property. These major differences between both authors come from their different approaches. Plato was using inductive reasoning: leaving from his own assumptions on justice then describing the city afterwards, meanwhile Aristotle was having an empirical reasoning as he was starting from the components of the city to reach its whole. [...]