Aristotle - Richard Kraut

Aristotle

Political Philosophy

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
536 Seiten
2002
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-878200-1 (ISBN)
59,20 inkl. MwSt
This book offers a systematic overview of Aristotle's conception of well-being, virtue and justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then explores the major themes of Politics: civic-mindedness, slavery, family, property, the common good, class conflict, the limited wisdom of the multitude, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society.
This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times. Beginning with a critique of subjectivist accounts of well-being, Kraut goes on to assess Aristotle's objective and universalistic account of eudaimonia and excellent activity. He offers a detailed interpretation of Aristotle's conception of justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then turns to the major themes of the Politics: the political nature of human beings, the city's priority over the individual, the justification of slavery, the defence of the family and property, the pluralistic nature of cities and the need for their unification, the distinction between good citizenship and full virtue, the value and limits of popular control over elites, the corrosive effects of poverty and wealth, the critique of democratic conceptions of freedom and equality, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society. Aristotle's political philosophy, as Kraut reads it, provides a model of the way in which a rich understanding of human well-being can guide the amelioration of a world in which agreement about the human good is rarely, if ever, achieved.

Richard Kraut is Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, US

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Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.1.2002
Reihe/Serie Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 233 mm
Gewicht 828 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-19-878200-4 / 0198782004
ISBN-13 978-0-19-878200-1 / 9780198782001
Zustand Neuware
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