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Slavery: Slavery is the dehumanizing practice of treating people as property. Slaves are forced to work without pay and are often subjected to violence and abuse. Slavery is a violation of human rights. See also Human rights, Fundamental rights, Autonomy, Person, Humans.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Friedrich Nietzsche on Slavery - Dictionary of Arguments

Höffe I 373
Slavery/Nietzsche/Höffe: In an early text, the third of five prefaces to five
Höfe I 374
of his unwritten books, "The Greek State"(1), Nietzsche contrasts the basic democratic attitude of his time, the urge for "equality of suffering," the unique individual, the genius, with an outstanding artist or philosopher, perhaps also a scientist, but also the primeval figure of political leadership, the military genius. They all, he explains in deliberate provocation, need slavery to develop their creative powers. In Zarathustra (2), however, the title character embodies a human ideal that no longer requires slavery as a social precondition.
Höffe I 374
Work/Dignity: Nietzsche [polemicizes](1) against the speech of the "dignity of humans" and the "dignity of labor". (Karl Marx, who is important for the newer theory of labor, is mentioned neither here nor elsewhere in Nietzsche's work). With the Greeks, it must be recognized that labor, which includes artistic creation, is a necessary disgrace, however, of which one feels shame.
A similarly necessary shame concerns slavery, for only it makes it possible for a minority of Olympic people, as a "preferred class removed from the struggle for existence", to produce art. Nietzsche, with the gesture of someone from the Enlightenment compromising the present, expresses the "cruel sounding truth": "Slavery belongs to the essence of a culture. This, by the way, "was not in any way offensive to either original Christianity or Germanicity".
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, >Karl Marx.

1. F. Nietzsche, Fünf Vorreden zu fünf ungeschriebenen Büchern. 1872
2. F. Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra – Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen. 1883 - 1885

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Nie I
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe Berlin 2009

Nie V
F. Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil 2014

Höffe I
Otfried Höffe
Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016


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