On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Sam Pawlett wrote:
> Was Aristotle a bourgeois liberal?
A man who thought slavery was natural was not a bourgeois liberal. And his central idea here, the idea that the production of the necessary social product means some people must be without leisure, is only necessarily true in a society with a low level of productivity.
The transposition of these ideas into a modern context makes Nussbaum look a lot less than a liberal as well.
Michael
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