Aristotelian justifications for slavery persisted until modern scientific racism

Evidence

Aristotle was thus sustained into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until a more scientistic rationale could overtake the ideological needs of the New Imperialism. Still, through Aristotle the convergence of moral resolution and practical necessity between Christian societies of the medieval and modern periods and the slave societies of the pre-Christian eras was striking: [F]rom the Homeric period onward the passionate adherence of the Greeks to the desire for political and personal liberty made it difficult for them to find a satisfactory explanation of their own slave organization… — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 508

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School critique of Enlightenment ‘scientistic’ rationalization serving domination.