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List of contents
Introduction: The Aristotelian Tradition of Virtues, Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania), Eleni Leontsini (University of Ioannina, Greece), and Kelvin Knight (London Metropolitan University, UK)
Part I. The Aristotelian Tradition of Virtues
1. Four – or More – Political Aristotles, Alasdair MacIntyre (University of Notre Dame, USA & London Metropolitan University, UK)
2. Plato and Aristotle on Human Nature and Society, Richard Stalley (University of Glasgow, UK)
3. ‘Managers would not need subordinates and masters would not need slaves’: Aristotle’s Oikos and Oikonomia Reconsidered, Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University & Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)
4. Aristotle and Two Senses of Happiness, Buket Korkut Raptis (University of Mugla, Turkey)
5. ‘Going through Time Together’: Aristotelian Friendship and the Criterion of Time, Eleni Leontsini (University of Ioannina, Greece & Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
6. Byzantine Thomism: Aristotelianism and Thomas Aquinas’ Reception in Byzantium, Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsini (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Part II. Modernity, Conflict and MacIntyrean Aristotelianism
7. Aristotelianism, Austinianism and the Problem of the Good, Kelvin Knight (London Metropolitan University, UK)
8. Virtues and the Common Good: Alasdair MacIntyre Reads Aristotle, Christof Rapp (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany)
9. Williams and MacIntyre on the Human Good and Ethical Objectivity, Apostolos Malakos (London Metropolitan University, UK)
10. MacIntyre’s Nietzschean Anti-Modernism, Golfo Maggini (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Part III. Moral Philosophy and Modern Social and Political Order
11. From Field to Forest? Exploring Limits of Virtue Ethics, Joseph Dunne (Dublin City University, Ireland)
12. Aristotle and the Politics of Recognition, Tony Burns (University of Nottingham, UK)
13. Human Flourishing and Labour: Aristotle, MacIntyre, and Marx, Egidijus Mardosas (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
14. Alasdair MacIntyre’s Aristotelianism: A Marxist Critique, Paul Blackledge (Northumbria University, UK)
Index
About the author
Andrius Bielskis is Director of the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania, and Professor of Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.Eleni Leontsini is Assistant Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina, Greece and Research Fellow at the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.Kelvin Knight is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics & Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK.
Summary
This compelling and distinctive volume advances Aristotelianism by bringing its traditional virtue ethics to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and egalitarian dispute.
This volume bridges the gap between Aristotle’s philosophy and the multitude of contemporary Aristotelian theories that have been formulated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part I draws on Aristotle’s texts and Thomas Aquinas’ Aristotelianism to examine the Aristotelian tradition of virtues, with a chapter by Alasdair MacIntyre contextualising the different readings of Aristotle’s philosophy. Part II offers a critical engagement with MacIntyrean Aristotelianism, while Part III demonstrates the ongoing influence of Aristotelianism in contemporary theoretical debates on governance and politics.
Extensive in its historical scope, this is a valuable collection relating the tradition of virtue to modernity, which will be of interest to all working in virtue ethics and contemporary Aristotelian politics.
Foreword
Advances Aristotelianism by highlighting the relevance of Aristotle’s thought to contemporary debates on governance and politics.
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This volume is a welcome addition to the literature on Aristotelian political theories. It relates the MacIntyrean views to various debates inside and outside of Aristotelian theories. MacIntyre allows diversity, criticism and dialogue, unlike the misunderstood view of communitarianism. This book embodies the spirit of such a criticism-oriented MacIntyrean community.
