Kitap 3
1278b
And again, the several recognized varieties of government can easily be defined; in fact we frequently discuss them in our external discourses.Mentioned at 1323a 22 (and also six times in other books); they are there appealed to for the tripartite classification of foods which in Aristot. Nic. Eth.1098b 12 is ascribed to current opinion of long standing and generally accepted by students of philosophy. The term may there predenote doctrines not peculiar to the Peripatetic school. The authority of a master over a slave, although in truth when both master and slave are designed by nature for their positions their interests are the same, nevertheless governs in the greater degree with a view to the interest of the master, but incidentally with a view to that of the slave, for if the slave deteriorates the position of the master cannot be saved from injury. Authority over children and wife [and over the whole household, which we call the art of household managementAristotle can hardly have written this clause, as it includes mastership over slaves.] is exercised either in the interest of those ruled or for some common interest of both parties,—essentially, in the interest of the ruled, as we see that the other arts also,
