A semantic slip in Aristotle’s language authorized centuries of Western corporal punishment.

Evidence

The slip from internal disposition to external drilling is the single most important conceptual move in the entire history of Western corporal-punishment justification. Aristotle did not endorse it. But Aristotle’s language permitted it. And because Aristotle was the philosopher — for the entire medieval Christian university curriculum, Aristotle was the philosopher — whatever Aristotle’s language permitted became, by the thirteenth century, what Christian Europe taught about how children should be raised. — , The Rod and the Child, 458

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the season-spanning theme of selective reception in the author’s other books (Plato’s gentle Laws not traveling vs. Aristotle’s habituation traveling). — connects to: Multiple world traditions prescribe bounded corporal correction within specific parameters — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3770; A tradition’s view of the child’s moral nature determines its stance on corporal punishment — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4202; Aristotle’s doctrine framed medieval debates justifying or refuting slavery (+3 more)

Related

• Multiple world traditions prescribe bounded corporal correction within specific parameters (similarity 0.81)
• Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves (similarity 0.81)
• Institutional structures, not ideology, determined severity of corporal practice (similarity 0.81)
• Corporal punishment was not the engine of medieval intellectual achievement (similarity 0.81)
• A tradition’s view of the child’s moral nature determines its stance on corporal punishment (similarity 0.80)
• Surviving Greek school exercises show no evidence of corporal punishment in the classroom (similarity 0.79)
• Religious traditions framed child corporal punishment as love, not violence (similarity 0.78)
• Corporal punishment is contraindicated for moral learning (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Aristotle’s doctrine framed medieval debates justifying or refuting slavery #complicates (0.60)
• A tradition’s view of the child’s moral nature determines its stance on corporal punishment #expands (0.45) — , The Rod and the Child, 4202
• Institutional structures, not ideology, determined severity of corporal practice #contradicts (0.40) — , The Rod and the Child, 2235