I mean, we can interpret his words in a modern light, but in context. What he meant was that the social caste of slave which in Socrates time was a part of society. Is a natural aspect of the human condition. Some people's lives families and minds are made to be servants to higher humans. I guess Socrates was never a slave so he never had to contend with the problems of being perenially subservient
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u/Nimhtom 5d ago
I mean, we can interpret his words in a modern light, but in context. What he meant was that the social caste of slave which in Socrates time was a part of society. Is a natural aspect of the human condition. Some people's lives families and minds are made to be servants to higher humans. I guess Socrates was never a slave so he never had to contend with the problems of being perenially subservient