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Endangered Excellence
(September 2020)
On the Political Philosophy of Aristotle
Pierre Pellegrin - Author
Anthony Preus - Translator
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A fresh look at Aristotle’s political theory with attention to the resonance of his thought for contemporary concerns.
In Endangered Excellence, Pierre Pellegrin provides a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's Politics, revealing the extent to which Aristotle diverged from other ancient writers on politics, and the extent to which many of his positions resemble modern ...(Read More) |
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Being Measured
(December 2019)
Truth and Falsehood in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Mark R. Wheeler - Author
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Advances an interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of accurate measurement.
On the basis of careful textual exegesis and philosophical analysis of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Mark R. Wheeler offers a groundbreaking interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of measurement. Wheeler demonstrates that Aristotle’s investigation of truth and falsehood in...(Read More) |
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Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
(November 2019)
Steven Skultety - Author
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Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contemporary political theory.
Do only modern thinkers like Machiavelli and Hobbes accept that conflict plays a significant role in the origin and maintenance of political community? In this book, Steven Skultety argues that Aristotle not on...(Read More) |
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Logoi and Muthoi
(June 2019)
Further Essays in Greek Philosophy and Literature
William Wians - Editor
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Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.
In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellect...(Read More) |
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The Experience of Truth
(November 2017)
Gaetano Chiurazzi - Author
Robert T. Valgenti - Translator
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Advances a hermeneutic conception of truth as a mode of being, in dialogue with Aristotle, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Heidegger, Putnam, and Rorty.
What does it mean to say that something is true? In this book Gaetano Chiurazzi argues that when we say that something is true, we do not say something merely about a state of affairs, but also about ourselves. Truth is not just the fact of “what is out there,” but a mode of e...(Read More) |
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Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics
(November 2016)
Ann Ward - Author
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Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectual virtue with morality.
In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamenta...(Read More) |
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Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis
(January 2013)
David Roochnik - Author
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An urgent, contemporary defense of Aristotle.
In 1935 Edmund Husserl delivered his now famous lecture “Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity,” in which he argued that the “misguided rationalism” of modern Western science, dominated by the model of mathematical physics, can tell us nothing about the “meaning” of our lives. Today Husserl’s conviction that the Wes...(Read More) |
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Aristotle's Concept of Chance
(March 2012)
Accidents, Cause, Necessity, and Determinism
John Dudley - Author
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The first exhaustive study of Aristotle’s concept of chance.
This landmark book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of Aristotle’s concept of chance. Chance is invoked by many to explain the order in the universe, the origins of life, and human freedom and happiness. An understanding of Aristotle’s concept of chance is indispensable for an appreciation of his views on nature and et...(Read More) |
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Aristotle's Politics Today
(October 2007)
Lenn E. Goodman - Editor
Robert B. Talisse - Editor
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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; rat...(Read More) |
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Heidegger and Aristotle
(August 2005)
The Twofoldness of Being
Walter A. Brogan - Author
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Interprets Heidegger’s phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s philosophy.
Walter A. Brogan’s long-awaited book exploring Heidegger’s phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s philosophy places particular emphasis on the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Rhetoric. Controversial and challenging, Heidegger and Aristotle claims that it is Heidegger’s sustai...(Read More) |
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