Aristotle's Politics Today

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Aristotle's Politics Today

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Lenn E. Goodman - Editor
Robert B. Talisse - Editor

SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Price: $60.00
Hardcover - 173 pages

Release Date: October 2007

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7227-9

Price: $18.95
Paperback - 173 pages

Release Date: June 2008

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7228-6

Summary

Examines the implications of Aristotle’s political thought for contemporary political theory.

According to Aristotle, man’s essential sociality implies a distinctive conception of politics, one in which all political associations exist for the sake of the moral perfection of human beings. This stands in sharp contrast with the modern view of politics that man is not “by nature” political; rather, man chooses to create political associations for the sake of securing the protection of his life and property. Many political theorists have begun to express doubts about this modern view, calling for a return to Aristotle’s vision of a politics that is deeply moral. In Aristotle’s Politics Today, distinguished political philosophers representing a diversity of approaches examine the meaning, relevance, and implications of Aristotle’s political thought for contemporary social and political theory. The contributors engage a broad range of topics, including Aristotle’s views on constitutionalism, the extension of Aristotelian ideas to issues in international relations, the place of Aristotelian virtue in modern democratic politics, and Aristotle’s conception of justice.

“The contributors make interesting and original points that deserve the attention of contemporary political philosophers and political theorists.” — Nicholas Rescher, author of Philosophical Dialectics: An Essay on Metaphilosophy

Contributors include Eugene Garver, Lloyd P. Gerson, Lenn E. Goodman, Edward Halper, Fred D. Miller Jr., May Sim, Peter L. P. Simpson, and Robert B. Talisse.

Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is the author and editor of many books, including coeditor (with Heidi M. Ravven) of Jewish Themes in Spinoza’s Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press. Robert B. Talisse is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of several books, including Democracy After Liberalism: Pragmatism and Deliberative Politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Lenn E. Goodman and Robert B. Talisse

1. Aristotelian Statecraft and Modern Politics
Fred D. Miller, Jr.

2. Aristotle and the Liberal State
Edward C. Halper

3. Why Democrats Need the Virtues
Robert B. Talisse

4. Virtue-oriented Politics: Confucius and Aristotle
May Sim

5. The Morality of Nations: An Aristotelian Approach
Lloyd P. Gerson

6. The Revolt of the Just
Eugene Garver

7. Aristotle's Regime of the Americans
Peter L. P. Simpson

8. Aristotle's Polity Today
Lenn E. Goodman

Works Cited
Contributors
Index Locorum
Index

Related Subjects

Ancient Greek Philosophy
Aristotle
Political Theory

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