Slavery
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 8:49 am
Slavery
The condition of being legally owned by someone else, or the system in which some people are owned by others. That is their property like any chattel.
Defined in that way it is clear enough that slavery is a form of or feature of tyranny.
The opposite of that might be taken as freedom from that status, but that has nothing positive about it. Such a person would be rattling about in the world like a loose penny - chaos. His 'freedom' needs to be directed towards a purpose which is that of living in a social condition of anarchism or altruism.
It might be mentioned that slavery as defined can itself have extremes. From a person with no rights whatsoever who may be whipped into obedience and subjection to any usage. To a person who is legally constrained but yet has numerous rights short of 'freedom'.
But slavery, under that name or any other that may be suitable, can be expanded beyond the given definition. There is bondage of will on the one hand, and corruption of the will on the other hand. What is normally seen as slavery is the former, in which a person as property, is put to work against his will. The latter case is where a person is brain-washed in such as way that his will is taken over, and he thereafter believes in his or her own slavery as a duty. Some forms of marriage perhaps. The most subtle form of this for a philosophy-religion to become the master.
Religion-philosophy based on duty is not the same as one based on responsibility.
The altruistic form of Christianity appeals to a converts sense of responsibility to others and to society.
Unfortunately there are anarchistic views of Christianity, based on little more than the telling of beads.
The condition of being legally owned by someone else, or the system in which some people are owned by others. That is their property like any chattel.
Defined in that way it is clear enough that slavery is a form of or feature of tyranny.
The opposite of that might be taken as freedom from that status, but that has nothing positive about it. Such a person would be rattling about in the world like a loose penny - chaos. His 'freedom' needs to be directed towards a purpose which is that of living in a social condition of anarchism or altruism.
It might be mentioned that slavery as defined can itself have extremes. From a person with no rights whatsoever who may be whipped into obedience and subjection to any usage. To a person who is legally constrained but yet has numerous rights short of 'freedom'.
But slavery, under that name or any other that may be suitable, can be expanded beyond the given definition. There is bondage of will on the one hand, and corruption of the will on the other hand. What is normally seen as slavery is the former, in which a person as property, is put to work against his will. The latter case is where a person is brain-washed in such as way that his will is taken over, and he thereafter believes in his or her own slavery as a duty. Some forms of marriage perhaps. The most subtle form of this for a philosophy-religion to become the master.
Religion-philosophy based on duty is not the same as one based on responsibility.
The altruistic form of Christianity appeals to a converts sense of responsibility to others and to society.
Unfortunately there are anarchistic views of Christianity, based on little more than the telling of beads.
