While reading this weeks’ assignment I realized that I agree with many of Aristotle’s views in regards to how he disagreed with Plato and Socrates. I also found that I strongly disagreed with many of his views as well.
The biggest point of Aristotle's that I disagreed with was his idea that there is an inferior class of human beings. In one of his works, Politics, Aristotle states "When then there is such a difference as that between the soul and body, or between men and animals (as in the case of those whose business is to use their body, and who can do nothing better), the lowest sort are by nature slaves...". So, Aristotle is saying that one could detect a "lower" class of human beings by the build of their bodies (or the fact they use their bodies to survive) and that these "lower" people are natures slaves, like animals. I completely disagree with this view. First off I don't believe any human being is inferior or of a "lower class", especially not because of the way their bodies are built – or whether they use their bodies to survive. Yes, generally men of stronger build did the grunt work and the men of weaker build dis jobs oriented towards intelligent thought, back then, but that absolutely does not place the stronger bodied men as sub-human.
So, Aristotle did have many great ideas in views but I feel he went completely off base with this view and I felt I should "call him out on it".
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I found that I liked Aristotle a lot more a well but I definitely agree with you about his thought that there are "inferior human beings". I would like to believe that I can reach for my goals and achieve anything I want to not that I could be a dud and go nowhere in life.
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