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Politics [Πολιτικά], Book 1, ch. 5 / 1254b [tr. B. Jowett (1885)] - Aristotle | WIST Quotations
Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind. Aristotle is arguing that there is a natural distinction between the rulers and ruled, starting first with animals, then with sex. Alternate…