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, (-5[1])which Werner Jaeger argued was written in a different period 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, 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 (10[1])slaves.” This text concludes that a mixed constitution is best. For 10 points, “man is by nature” an “animal” concerned with the title subject according to what Aristotle treatise on the city-state? ■END■ (0[1])

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