Aristotle on Natural Slavery

Heath, Malcolm

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“…On Plato, see Vlastos (1981), p.16. On Aristotle, see Heath (2008) and Lear (1988), p.199. 40 Nietzsche's thinking is not political in the narrow sense that Nietzsche never thinks systematically about what role contemporary governments or states may legitimately play in instituting or maintaining this slavery "in some sense or other."…”

Section: Human Worth and Dignitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture

Huddleston¹

2019

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Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture"In 1872 Nietzsche shocked the European philological community with the publication of e Birth of Tragedy. In this fervid rst book Nietzsche looked to ancient Greek culture in the hope of nding the path to a revitalization of modern German culture. Cultural health was at this point unquestionably his paramount concern. Yet postwar Nietzsche scholarship has typically held that a er his Untimely Meditations which followed soon a er, Nietzsche's philosophy took a sharply individualist turn-an interpretation largely due to Walter Kaufmann's noble and in uential e ort to counter the Nazi appropriation of Nietzsche by stressing Nietzsche's anti-political individualism and downplaying his seemingly more noxious Kulturphilosophie. But even a er Nietzsche gave up on the idea of German culture as something blessed with inner truth and greatness and pregnant with the potential for renewed splendor-heaping scorn instead on the Germans and their newlyfounded Reich-he still, I argue, continued to take culture, as a collective social achievement, to be something of prime importance. Indeed, it is for this reason that he took the ourishing of great individuals-especially artists and intellectuals-to be vital. eir singularity and their excellence redeems the decadent cultural landscape from the bovine blight of the "last man" and the self-satis ed, uncreative, and barren mediocrity he represents. My dissertation uses Nietzsche's perfectionistic ideal of a ourishing culture as a point of departure for investigating many of the central themes in his work: his criticism of the ideals enshrined in conventional morality; his attack on Christianity; his celebration of individual human excellence and cultural accomplishment; his lamentations about cultural decline; his troubling remarks about the need for slavery ("in some sense or other") if a society is to ourish; and his grand ambitions for a "revaluation of all values." i

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Section: Human Worth and Dignitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture

Huddleston¹

2019

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“…9 For our part, however, we will exclusively direct our interpretive focus on the definition and the consequences of Aristotle's account with respect to the relation between life and instrumentality as a problem for the contemporary government of nature. By restricting our focus we do not engage with interpretations of slavery in Aristotle in relation to thumos (Heath, 2008), or his claims about the mutually 'beneficial' relation between master and slave as it pertains to the good life (eudaimonia) (Newman, 1887: 144-55).…”

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Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes

Amironesei

Scoville

2019

Theory, Culture & Society

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This article analyzes the emergence of a political rationality of groundwater in contemporary California. It contrasts a new government of nature that we call a ‘political physics of vital processes’, operative in the case of the Orange County Water District, with juridical and biopolitical rationalities of groundwater governance. To do so, we propose a genealogical account grounded in a reading of a key concept in Aristotle’s first book of Politics. The case is analyzed along the axes of subjectivity, space, and temporality, opening to a novel way of conceptualizing the relation between power and nature.

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“…For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule (Aristotle 350BC/2015). Nowadays Smith (1983), Heath (2008) and some other authors show the development of the theory of natural slavery by Aristotle. Heath (2008) illustrates Aristotle's theory by analysis of the statement that natural slaves does not reach the eudemonia, which is the main purpose of human life.…”

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Russian way to the knowledge-based society

Kulikov

2016

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Aristotle on Natural Slavery

Cited by 87 publications

References 29 publications

Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture

Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture

Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes

Russian way to the knowledge-based society

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