Aristotle
Born in the year of 384 B.C. Aristotle 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
circumstances it is evident that Aristotle did not believe that all men who were
slaves were meant to be slaves.
In his book Politics, Aristotle begins with the Theory of The Household,
and it is here that the majority of his views upon slavery are found. With the
beginning of Chapter IV, Aristotle's idea of slavery is clearly defined. "The
instruments of the household form its stock of property : they are animate and
inanimate : the slave is an animate instrument, intended (like all the
instruments of the household) for action, and not for productions." This
distinction between action and production, is based upon the understanding that
'production' is a course in which......
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