The Constitution of the Soul

Aristotle on Lack of Deliberative Authority

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ID9665993
AuthorsKaren Margrethe Nielsen (Somerville Hospital, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume65
Issue2
Pages572-586
Publication date2015-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009838815000063
OpenAlexW2253616613
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited17

My aim in this paper is to examine Aristotle's puzzling and contentious claim in Politics 1.13 that the deliberative faculty in women is ‘without authority’ (ἄκυρον): The freeman rules over the slave after another manner from that in which the male rules over the female, or the man over the child; although the parts of the soul are present in all of them, they are present in different ways. For the slave lacks the deliberative faculty (τὸ βουλευτικόν) altogether; the woman has it, but it is without authority (ἄκυρον), and the child has it, but it is immature (ἀτελές). ( Pol . 1.13, 1160a10-15)

Constitution · Epistemology · Political authority · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soul · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy

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