Round 4: Tossup 6

Jeremy Waldron called this ancient text’s claim that many people can pool their shares of excellence to act as a single body “the doctrine of the wisdom of the multitude.” Practical advice like which wind is healthiest is provided in this text’s Book VII, which Werner Jaeger argued was written in a different period (-5[1])than its three preceding books. A six-part taxonomy in this text is often presented as a cross table with columns of “correct” and “deviant” and rows of (*) one, (10[1])the few, and the many. This text infamously compares its title subject to the householder’s power over both women and those it calls “natural slaves.” This text concludes that a mixed constitution is best. (10[1])For 10 points, “man is by nature” an “animal” concerned with the title subject according to what Aristotle treatise on the city-state? ■END■ (10[1])

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