Aristotle
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Born in the year of 384 B.C. was seen as conventional for his
time, for he regarded slavery as a natural course of nature and believed that
certain people were born to be slaves due to the fact that their soul lacked the
rational part that should rule in a human being; However in certain
circumst ....
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.... desired beyond the immediate act
of doing. Where as, the simple act of completing a task is identified as
'action'. Aristotle, who believed that life was action and not production
theorized that slaves were instruments of life and were therefore needed to form
a complete household. In fact Aristotle went as far as to say that a slave was
comparable to a tame animal, with their only divergence in the fact that a slave
could apprehend reason. For he concluded that a slave and animals only u ....
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