Finding the Mean - Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy

Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposition between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism, between the politics of rights and the politics of virtues.

Originally published in 1990.

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List of contents

Acknowledgments 1Aristotle's Teleology and the Tradition of Evaluative Explanation 2Theorizing the Human Good 3How Theory Informs Practice: Virtues and Rules in Aristotelian Practical Philosophy 4Gendered Virtue: Plato and Aristotle on the Politics of Virility 5Reconceiving Liberal Democracy, Part I: Democracy as a Range of Possibilities 6Reconceiving Liberal Democracy, Part II: Liberal Virtues and the Public Life References Index

About the author

Stephen G. Salkever

Summary

Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposition between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism, between the politics of rights and the politics of virtues. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest

Additional text

"Absolutely essential for any serious student of Aristotle's moral and political philosophy."---Anthony J. Celano, Canadian Philosophical Reviews

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Salkever, Stephen G. Salkever
• Assisted by: Marshall Cohen (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691604985
• ISBN: 978-0-691-60498-5
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Studies in Moral, Political, a; Princeton Legacy Library; Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Constitution: government & the state, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Constitution: government and the state