20 ARZSTOTLE’S POLITICS.
The chief difficulties in this complicated passage are the(I) The opposition of justice to virtue, which is, perhaps, only(2) What is the meaning of Bd yip roih (5 4) I See Eng. text.
(3) Is rdvour u) a principle excluding slavery (Bernays), or 6)
justifying slavery, as existing for the protection of the inferior
races (cp. 5.5 I I, ols rtai (rup$Cpci rb BouX&crv, 6. $ IO and S. 6.5 6)?
The thesis that ‘justice is benevolence ‘ is held by Aristotle to be
not inconsistent with slavery, that is, with the just rule of a superior.
(4) Do the words btaorciwov ~opir=a)* ‘ being kept apart and
not combined, placed in bare opposition,’ or 6) ‘ being set aside I ’
Both uses of BrlurauBac are justified by examples ; in support of the
former we may quote Ar. de Caelo, li. 13, 295 a. 30, are rir uroixcia
(sc. of Empedocles) Sicwr$eci xwph id io; YfiKOUE, and supra c. 5.
$5 2, 8 ; and this meaning agrees better with the context.
(5) Do the words hpor hdyo~ refer a) to one of the two
preceding propositions, or b) to a further alternative? It is
doubtful whether they are Greek, if taken in the sense of ‘the
latter,’ or ‘one of these two propositions.’ It is better to trans-
late ‘the other view,’ which is explained by what follows, &E 06
8ci K.T.X., being the view which denies the natural right of the
superior in virtue to rule, and which here as elsewhere, iii. 13. 25,
is regarded by Aristotle as absurd. (See discussion of this passage
in the Transactions of the Cambridge Philological Society, Vol. 11.)
No philosopher is known to have asserted that 6rrtarou;y is
&ora. Aristotle in Nic. Eth. viii. 1. 5 4, 9. $6 1-3 notes some
resemblances between Brrtarou6y and +Ala: and we may cite as
parallel the Christian maxim, ‘ Love is the fulfilling of the law.’following :-
to virtue in the lower sense of the word.
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:
- 8iw 8’ dvrcxdprml rivrr, &E oTowac, Biralov T~V~S.
‘There are some again who identify law and justice.’ ‘ohor
may be taken either I) with rdiour, ‘they maintain in general
terms,’ i.e. holding to some general notion of justice; or 2)* with
hxdfimt, ‘ holding absolutely to a kind of justice.’
- 8iw 8’ dvrcxdprml rivrr, &E oTowac, Biralov T~V~S.
e. 5. apl 8 ou (POULY.
‘But in the same breath they say the opposite,’ i.e. they are