The slavery of ancient compared to the modern:

an investigation on the reception of Aristotle's ideas in the modern era

Abstract

This article seeks to clarify the divergences between Aristotle's theoretical-practical commitments and the modern liberal tradition, regarding slavery. For this purpose, the partialization of Aristotelian work in its modern reception is evaluated, which is consummated in the abstraction of the specificity of Aristotle's theoreticalmethodological procedure. The proper investigation of this theme was only conceivable insofar as it sought to overcome the limits of the “historicist” approach, as well as problematizing the liberal “apologetics”, as an unequivocal defender of freedom. Finally, what in Estagirita is configured as a “broad sense of reality”, in the modern tradition that assimilates it ends up presenting itself as a questionable ideology.