Who can claim Aristotle?

Re:Who can claim Aristotle? by throw0101d on Sunday December 01, 2024 @11:07AM (#42289075)

Worth a reminder that we don't have to do all-or-nothing. Aristotle has some good/useful points (eudaimonia) and some that we probably want to leave behind (slavery).

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Re:Who can claim Aristotle? by whatever1 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @11:20AM (#42289131)

We never left slavery behind, we just moved it overseas.

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Re:Who can claim Aristotle? by jumpoddly on Sunday December 01, 2024 @11:32AM (#42289186)

And equally abhorrently, as the 13th amendment and now California can attest, to the incarcerated

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

“Californians voted against outlawing slavery. Why did proposition 6 fail?”

https://www.kqed.org/news/12013392/californians-voted-agains...

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