aristotle and locke on slavery

seen...[and] some men are by nature free, and others slaves"(Aristotle, 1254b34-40).
             Aristotle states, therefore, that the distinction between a slave and a master lies in a slaves' "reason enough to apprehend, but not to have"(Aristotle, 1254b22). Aristotle later states that a slave: "has no deliberative faculty at all"(Aristotle, 1260a12).
             Aristotle is very harsh in his distinction between slaves and masters. Martin Harvey, a professor at Florida State University, states that in defining a slave as having "no deliberative faculty at all"(Aristotle, 1260a12), "natural slaves can only indirectly participate in the Good Life to the extent that he or she is owned by a just master"(Harvey, 1). Professor Harvey goes even further in illustrating Aristotle's demeaning attitude towards slaves, when he states that according to Aristotle: "natural slaves suffer from a defect in their humanity in that they are ultimately incapable of determining, and subse
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