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Aristotle’s Defense of Slavery
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
- This Animated Video evaluates Aristotle’s veiws about slavery, focusing on his idea of " Natural Slave" . In his work, the Politics, Aristotle describes a natural slave as "anyone who, while being human, is by nature not his own but of someone else" and further states "he is of someone else when, while being human, he is a piece of property; and a piece of property is a tool for action separate from its owner."
Aristotle defends Slavery , stating that for some people, being enslaved was just and even beneficial for them.
in this animation our host Dan Lowe looks deeper into Aristotle’s Defense of Slavery, considering the background of the Slavery in Ancient Greece. finally he evaluates Aristotle’s argument and reviews the legacy of aristotle’s argument including in the antebellum United States.
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00:00 Introduction
00:37 Slavery in Ancient Greece
01:04 Aristotle’s Argument Defending Slavery
04:20 Evaluating Aristotle’s Argument
05:16 The Legacy of Aristotle’s Argument
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The same tendency does exist in us today. If we didn’t have a military and disarmed ourselves we’d become slaves, prisoners, or dead tomorrow. Human nature is savage.
It's very curios that the video insists showing the Aristotelian slave as a dark skin person when Aristotle in his book is mainly referring to the North Europeans as the "natural slaves". For many centuries the blonde and small Germans and Scandinavians were considered too stupid and useless to be free people, totally inferior to their Mediterranean and superior Masters. For the contrary, the tall and dark skinned North Africans were considered highly civilised and were respected.
In the video, the slaves should have blonde hair and blue eyes.
Germans were smaller than Greeks? Or do they thought that they had a brains, so they could be smaller?
Just classic racism and false history plays.
@@k0ziolRD If I remember well, Greeks and Romans from the rich cities averaged 170 cm, while Germans were two or tree centimeters shorter. The Average US Soldier around 1860 was 170 cms. The idea of North Europeans as tall people is historically recent, around 200 years old.
That makes sense, because I am blonde with blue eyes and am very uncivilized. My ancestors would be proud.
I appreciate someone saying this. Because it’s true (Edit: the historical fact not the inherency of inferiority of any type of person whatsoever)
Your pinned comment is not a sufficient reply to those who object to your use of images of people of African descent as slaves to illustrate Aristotle’s argument. To represent the classical Greek view of slavery through a racial lens gives the impression that race is an ahistorical and perhaps even natural characteristic, instead of being a pseudoscientific classification devised by those attempting to justify modern (post 15th century) European colonialism and slavery. By projecting images of the colonial slave trade back into the ancient past, your imagery does the very opposite of what you intend, as it lends credence to the view that African people have long been viewed as natural slaves. That is factually incorrect and it gives credence to those who want to appropriate Aristotle to justify modern racism.
For me this video provided an interesting brain exercise, and that fact of him being uncritical at the end towards his own society.
Nice touch.
The page for the comparison between Irish Iberian, anglo_teutonic and n**** comes from what book please? I would love to check out their logic back then thank you
Way to delete my original comment lol. As I said, you present a biased interpretation of Aristotle’s writings. I’d like you to timestamp the specific points in the actual book that are invalid or immoral. I will gladly respond with quotations from the book as well: ua-cam.com/video/d3gVry2xoOE/v-deo.html
He's absolutely correct
The thousands of years of slavery in Africa proves it
Same applies to any time, including now
And I think that’s why it’s said that there are more slaves now then ever before. Can’t reason for themselves
In Aristotle's time, Europeans enslaved other slaves
Stop lying
Why does Aristotle have poppie eyes 👀
So basically, to quote a well-studied teacher on the subject, "European philosophies of slavery were embedded into colonization and conquest as economic systems.." This seems to align from my perspective but curious to hear other thoughts.
Slavery is still prevalent in parts of the world today. And whites (Europeans) were the first people to abolish slavery.
this is an extremely vague overview of his view on slavery, to claim it was uncritical is just false firstly and you fail to explain how his metaphysics if true would actually show that he is right.
Your conclusion seems to be the fruit of an incomplete analysis. I sincerely hope you are not teaching this to your students.
Would you please explain what you mean here, justify what you are saying?
When you truly understand the world you realize Aristotle was right.
Sorry, right about what exactly? Natural slaves being a thing?
@@thecrakp0ta natural slave lacking rational deliberation (according to this video of what Aristotle said). There are a lot of people like this in the world today.
“We now have the largest number of slaves on Earth than we've had in human history,” said Andrew Forrest, founder of the Walk Free Foundation, an organization working to end contemporary slavery and human trafficking.”
Besides the negative connotation that slavery is associated with, looking apart from that…
I recall being in the military and being a low rank and following orders. I woke up. Exercised. Ate breakfast. Arrived where I was told to arrive at. Did the work I was told to do. Ate. Went back to my barracks room. Looked forward to the weekend. Repeat over and over.
I realized how easy it was to live my life and be told what to do and be guided where to go… I barely had to think for myself. But as time went by, and I had more responsibility, i realized that for those in charge, it takes more effort and mental capacity to organize those people. And my idea was that a slave is a bad word. We should use servant. Forced or not is beside the point. We are all forced to work for a living so you can’t argue that we are free. But still, the idea remains, that it’s easier to be a servant… to do physical labor without thought… to follow guidance and do… then it is for the person who has to coordinate the workers, to deal with the customers buying whatever products are being produced… all the logistics, the discipline, the structure, the happiness of the servants.
We think of slaves as whipped and abused, but that is done by bad slave masters. A good leader would take care of their works and make sure they are happy and have a good life.
Who wouldn’t want to be a servant for that person?
Would you want to work for a company that pays you well and allows you to live somewhat comfortably?
And if you were fortunate to be either wealthy by chance, or wealthy because you worked for it and have others working for you, would you want people to view you as bad for simply utilizing people and exploiting them for their need and desire to earn money to have a stable decent life?
I don’t fully understand or know what all Aristotle said about everything, but I’m sure it’s not as bad as this video makes it out to be. I can tell the editor was on the side of caution and tried to make it apparent that he didn’t necessarily agree with Aristotle… and I don’t agree with disagreeing with someone just for the sake of appeasing others. I think if there’s truth to be had, then it’s worth looking for it and accepting it and not caring what others think. He starts the video asking how someone with such philosophical insight get a basic moral problem like slavery completely wrong…
Again, I don’t know it all, but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume the great Aristotle was probably right
And the editor of this video just didn’t realize that slavery is more prevalent now then ever before. From actual slaves and human trafficking to people enslaved by their desires and consider that every single adult works (excluding the some who don’t or can’t)… I think it’s wrong to sit their and say someone such as Aristotle got something wrong so carelessly. It shows our own lack of rational deliberation, making us perfect “natural slaves”
@@thecrakp0t Yes. Most humans are guided by emotions and impulses instead of logic and reason.
I take umbrage to your depiction of the slaved as dark people. That comes from your racist western view point many of the slaves you are referring to where white. White Americans used his theory to justify slavery, Aristotle was contemporarily awear of the greatness of African people as most that is now attributed to Greeks is known to have African origins. The Greeks knew and respected that. Slave is not synonymous with Black.
please refer to the pinned comment as I understand your concerns.
ithink he was right the world was much better place back then. We all agree to that. Everyone is depressed nowadays na it can be traced meticulously to freeing of slaves. Every human deserves a slave aND EVERY SLAVES DESERVES A MASTER
Also it’s a shame that Dan Lowe is teaching this faulty argument to students at U of M
It has been brought up by some comments that the typical slaves in ancient Greece were not of African descent. it seems that the majority of slaves in ancient Greece were Syrians, then Thracians and Anatolians. it's true that African slaves were fewer but my goal as the animator of this video was to show that Aristotle's idea of natural slaves was rooted in a mindset of racism since he argued that non-Greeks were natural slaves. Aristotelian slave is shown as a dark-skin person to emphasize the racial difference between the owner and the slave.
Saying non-Greeks are natural slaves, is not racism but nationalism. The concept of race was not in the psyche of the world at that time. People recognized your nation, of course they saw and notice color but it was not categorized in the way we think of it today.