The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
“The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.”
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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.