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[–] pneumatron@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Science isn't out there making rules for owning slaves. And so that line about philosophy is utter bs. Philosophy also doesn't lay out rules for owning slaves.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Science isn’t out there making rules for owning slaves.

Okay, I just said science and religion do not overlap so saying religion does something science does not just further supports my argument.

And so that line about philosophy is utter bs

Philosophy is not science

Philosophy also doesn’t lay out rules for owning slaves

Depends in the philosopher:

Aristotle, in the first book of his Politics defends slavery ...
"Where then there is such a difference as that between soul and body, or between men and animals (as in the case of those whose business is to use their body, and who can do nothing better), the lower sort are by nature slaves, and it is better for them as for all inferiors that they should be under the rule of a master. For he who can be, and therefore is, another's and he who participates in rational principle enough to apprehend, but not to have, such a principle, is a slave by nature."

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-01-classics-of-western-philosophy-spring-2016/f74c1209194de820935eaaee72c8ec94_MIT24_01S16_SES23.pdf

The fact that people can have a religious book that has rules for owning slaves, while they themselves are opposed to owning slaves, indicates they are taking the "philosophy" they find useful from the book and not strictly adhering to everything in it.