A quote from Aristotle

donheff · 06-24-2006, 08:16 AM

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."

I stumbled on this quote from Aristotle and couldn't help but wonder at the gulf between that thinking and today's. I only saw the quote so maybe in context it means something other than what it appears to say.

OldAgePensioner · 06-24-2006, 08:19 AM

I always thought this was a great quote:

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost

lazygood4nothinbum · 06-24-2006, 10:00 AM

the context (why might he have felt that way about work):

aristotle on slavery...

But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature?

There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.

hmmm, maybe there's not such a gulf between that & today's thinking.

06-24-2006, 08:16 AM	#1
donheff Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,694	A quote from Aristotle "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." I stumbled on this quote from Aristotle and couldn't help but wonder at the gulf between that thinking and today's. I only saw the quote so maybe in context it means something other than what it appears to say. __________________ Every man is, or hopes to be, an Idler. -- Samuel Johnson

06-24-2006, 08:19 AM	#2
OldAgePensioner Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,352	Re: A quote from Aristotle I always thought this was a great quote: "The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost

06-24-2006, 10:00 AM	#3
lazygood4nothinbum Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,789	Re: A quote from Aristotle the context (why might he have felt that way about work): aristotle on slavery... But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule. hmmm, maybe there's not such a gulf between that & today's thinking. __________________ "off with their heads"~~dr. joseph-ignace guillotin "life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages."~~mark twain - letter to edward kimmitt 1901

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