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Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,267
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Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (Paperback, New): Peter Garnsey

Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (Paperback, New)

Peter Garnsey

Series: The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures

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This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, or a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply that slavery was accepted without question. This book draws on a wide range of sources, pagan, Jewish and Christian, over ten centuries, to challenge the common assumption of passive acquiescence in slavery, and the associated view that, Aristotle apart, there was no systematic thought on slavery. The work contains both a typology of attitudes to slavery ranging from critiques to justifications, and paired case studies of leading theorists of slavery, Aristotle and the Stoics, Philo and Paul, Ambrose and Augustine.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
Release date: November 1996
First published: 1996
Authors: Peter Garnsey
Dimensions: 216 x 136 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 288
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-57433-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
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LSN: 0-521-57433-1
Barcode: 9780521574334

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