Agriculture and farmers in Aristotle
Between integration and political exclusion
Abstract
While Xenophon in the Economics and Plato in the Laws unreservedly advocate the political integration of agriculture and farmers, my claim is that Aristotle’s case in the Politics is different. While he makes agriculture the main economic activity of any just city, for both empirical and metaphysical reasons, the question of who should carry it out remains problematic: if the ideal situation would be for slaves or foreign populations to take charge of it, so that free men could devote themselves exclusively to political affairs, the reality of the Greek world often leads free men to take part in agricultural tasks themselves, and to neglect political functions. In this sense, Aristotle’s Politics testifies to the limited and problematic political integration of farmers, between inclusion and exclusion, and invites us to question the distribution and relationships of political and economic functions in the city.
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