Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity

by Ilaria L E Ramelli and Ilaria Ramelli

Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, "natural" (Aristotle), or at best something morally "indifferent" (the Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable consequence of the Fall, or even an expression of God's unquestionable will? Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery shows that there were also definitive condemnations of slavery and social injustice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198777272
• ISBN13: 9780198777274
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.3"