219 works selected for the 40 candidate questions. Selections approved by Ben Breen, 29 September 2026. Arguments are unverified. Quotations were chosen by machine and are unchecked.
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c. 340 BCEAristotleAristotle,Nicomachean EthicsGreekTreatiseFull text
- Q11Should a judge follow a general rule when it produces an unjust result in a particular case?
No. Defines equity as the correction of law where it is defective because of its generality, and says the judge should decide as the legislator would have if present.
- Q11Should a judge follow a general rule when it produces an unjust result in a particular case?
c. 330 BCEAristotleAristotle,PoliticsGreekTreatiseFull text
- Q14Would machines becoming more capable than humans necessarily place humans in a subordinate position?
No. Says that if shuttles wove by themselves, master workmen would need no assistants and masters no slaves, so self-working instruments would serve rather than rule.
- Q29Would creating an intelligent being give its maker the right to own it?
Yes. Calls a slave an animated instrument and property, and says that if tools could work of themselves, like the statues of Daedalus, masters would not need slaves.
- Q14Would machines becoming more capable than humans necessarily place humans in a subordinate position?