![]() This is because there are no natural rulers among them but, rather, the association among them is between male and female slave. Among the barbarians the female and the slave have the same status. For each thing would do its work most nobly if it had one task rather than many. For nature makes nothing in the manner that the coppersmiths make the Delphic knife – that is, frugally – but, rather, it makes each thing for one purpose. Aristotle believed that in nature a common good came of the rule of a superior being, states in his Politics that "By nature the female has been distinguished from the slave. ![]() Aristotle's views on women influenced later Western thinkers, who quoted him as an authority until the end of the Middle Ages.ĭifferences between males and females Īristotle gave equal weight to women's happiness as he did to men's, commenting in his Rhetoric that a society cannot be happy unless women are happy too. ![]()
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