Deliberation and Natural Slavery

Harvey, Martin

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“…Slaves hence still deliberate on the means to reach specific ends and understand the rational admonitions of their masters, but are incapable of choosing their own ends. 59 This deficiency is mostly found among non-Greeks (barbaroi)-especially Asians (Pol., VII, 6, 1327b27-29)-whom Aristotle terms alogistoi (EN, VII, 5, 1149a10). 60 Scholars debate where to situate natural slaves on the spectrum between humans and animals.…”

Section: Aristotle's Natural Slave As Bare Lifementioning

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Aristotle’s Anthropological Machine and Slavery

Christiaens¹

2018

Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy

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Among the most controversial aspects of Aristotle’s philosophy is his endorsement of slavery. Natural slaves are excluded from political citizenship on ontological grounds and are thus constitutively unable to achieve the good life, identified with the collective cultivation of logos in the polis. Aristotle explicitly acknowledges their humanity, yet frequently emphasizes their proximity to animals. It is the latter that makes them purportedly unfit for the polis. I propose to use Agamben’s theory of the anthropological machine to make sense of this enigmatic exclusion and suggest a new conception of the good life and community detached from political rule. Aristotle’s distinction between humans and animals condemns slaves to bare life, but also reveals an opportunity for an inoperative form-of-life.

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Section: Aristotle's Natural Slave As Bare Lifementioning

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Aristotle’s Anthropological Machine and Slavery

Christiaens¹

2018

Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy

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“…Joshel and Murnaghan (2001) Slavery in historical perspective • These works investigate the historical development of slavery. Vogt (1974), Garnsey (1996), Turley (2000), Harvey (2001), De Wet (2010) Slavery as part of New Testament studies • These works study slavery as an aspect of the socio-historical context of the New Testament. Vogt (1974), Garnsey (1996), Turley (2000), Harvey (2001), De Wet (2010) Slavery as part of New Testament studies • These works study slavery as an aspect of the socio-historical context of the New Testament.…”

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Constructing ancient slavery as socio-historic context of the New Testament

Goede

2013

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Considering the vast scope of material on slavery in antiquity, this article aimed to design a search filter that delimits the scope of socio-historical aspects specifically relevant to the New Testament passages dealing with slavery. The term ‘search filter’ was borrowed from Information Technology, denoting defined search terms aimed at more efficient and effective searches of vast amounts of data. The search filter designed in this article made use of the following search terms: the period under investigation; the geographical region under investigation; various definitions of slavery; ancient terminology for slavery; and aspects arising from the New Testament passages themselves. Each of these criteria were considered in turn, and the results were used to define the search filter. Finally, the search filter was represented schematically

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“…Implicit or embodied knowledge goes wherever persons go. 20 And included in this knowledge may be the very capacities that also make them, as persons, mobile: namely knowledge of networks. The knowledge-workers prized by companies may be prized among other things for the connections they bring.…”

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Knowledge on its travels: dispersal and divergence in the makeup of communities

Strathern¹

2006

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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What makes a 'community'? The question becomes interesting in interinstitutional or interdisciplinary contexts premised on the creative mix of expertise from diverse locations. Knowledge comes from and is drawn into different organisational structures. At the same time, the notion that knowledge travels (across locations) invites one to reconstruct communities in its wake, tracing connections after the fact. Late twentieth, early twenty-first century citizens of the knowledge economy, inspired by electronic circuitry, also see sense in literally planning knowledge communities, imagining connections-to-be. This paper explores certain models of knowledge dispersal in order to ask what kind of 'community' the Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park might be generating. The ethnographic present is 2003.

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Deliberation and Natural Slavery

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Aristotle’s Anthropological Machine and Slavery

Aristotle’s Anthropological Machine and Slavery

Constructing ancient slavery as socio-historic context of the New Testament

Knowledge on its travels: dispersal and divergence in the makeup of communities

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