Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in." in the context of "John Dewey, in Democracy and Education (1916), Section 7: The Democratic Conception in Education" to mean that wisdom is timeless.