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He's willing to entertain arguments, both for and against the debate.
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Aristotle agrees with those who deny that
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slavery is justified by war or conquest.
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Wars, he remarks, are not always just.
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So, those who are captured in war,
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cannot be assumed to be justly or naturally enslaved.
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Similarly, he denies that
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slavery is always or only appropriate for non-Greeks.
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There are no, he is saying, racial or ethnic characteristics that
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distinguish the natural slave from the natural master.
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In a stunning admission, he says--listen to this--that
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"while nature may intend to distinguish the free man from the slave,"