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Natural slavery (or Aristotelian slavery) is the argument set forth in Aristotle's Politics that some people are slaves by nature, while others are slaves solely by law or convention. [ 1 ] Aristotle's discourse on slavery
Aristotle notes that natural justice is a species of political justice, specifically the scheme of distributive and corrective justice that would be established under the best political community; if this took the form of law, it could be called a natural law, though Aristotle does not discuss this and suggests in the Politics that the best ...
Aristotelianism (/ ˌ ær ɪ s t ə ˈ t iː l i ə n ɪ z əm / ARR-i-stə-TEE-lee-ə-niz-əm) is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle, usually characterized by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics.
Aristotelian physics is the form of natural philosophy described in the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC). In his work Physics, Aristotle intended to establish general principles of change that govern all natural bodies, both living and inanimate, celestial and terrestrial – including all motion (change with respect to place), quantitative change (change with respect to ...
Political naturalism is a political ideology and legal system positing that there is a natural law, just and obvious to all, which crosses ideologies, faiths, and personal thinking, and that naturally guaranties justice. It is first explicitly mentioned in Aristotle's Politics. [1]
Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980; second edition 2011) is a book by John Finnis first published by Oxford University Press, as part of the Clarendon Law Series. Finnis develops a philosophy of Law in the tradition of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas – Natural Law. His presentation and defence of Natural Law can be explored from three ...
In terms of Aristotle's theory of four causes, the word natural is applied both to the innate potential of matter cause and the forms which the matter tends to become naturally. [ 2 ] According to Leo Strauss , [ 3 ] the beginning of Western philosophy involved the "discovery or invention of nature" and the "pre-philosophical equivalent of ...
Q. 91: Of the Various Kinds of Law (eternal, natural, human, divine, sin laws) Q. 92: Of the Effects of Law. 2. IN PARTICULAR. Q. 93: Of the Eternal Law Q. 94: Of the Natural Law Q. 95: Of Human Law Q. 96: Of the Power of Human Law Q. 97: Of Change in Laws Q. 98: Of the Old Law Q. 99: Of the Precepts of the Old Law Q. 100: Of the Moral Precepts ...