#rule

The three-fold scheme of rule, with its two registers: • Political rule — husband and wife — among free and equal citizens • Kingly rule — father and children — a king and his ethnos • Masterly rule — master and slave — Greeks and barbaria…

Aristotle is radically egalitarian (to steal a line from Andrew Willard Jones). At several points he treats male and female as fundamentally the same, differing only as a matter of convention — which is why he likens that relationship to po…