Romans learned to hold contradiction between moral authority and legal ownership of their teachers
Evidence
The colonized are raising the children of the colonizer, under the colonizer’s roof, with the colonizer’s full economic and legal support, while remaining the colonizer’s legal property. The institution is organized around a contradiction — the conquered teach virtue, while the law treats the conquered as livestock. And the boys grow up inside that contradiction. They internalize it. They become Romans — meaning, become the kind of person who can hold this contradiction in mind without it producing political action to resolve it. — , The Rod and the Child, 638
Categorization
- XREF: Connects directly to contemporary colonial nanny / au pair labor dynamics raised in para 643, and to the broader question of who raises the children of the dominant class. — connects to: Christian pedagogical cruelty was doctrinally contingent, not theologically fixed — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2866; Roman fathers exercised less actual power over children than law allowed — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 12347; The Stoic doctrine of virtue leads to logical contradictions with determinism — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1033 (+2 more)
Related
- Roman paternal authority operated against mothers with equal investment (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Roman fathers exercised less actual power over children than law allowed
#corroborates(0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 12347 - Colonial Catholic pedagogical rules bounded corporal punishment but practice exceeded them
#corroborates(0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 4950 - The Stoic doctrine of virtue leads to logical contradictions with determinism
#corroborates(0.45) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1033 - Legal systems rest on customary social rules rather than moral foundations
#complicates(0.40) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 56