Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-878200-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 805 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraut, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I

- 2: Prolegomenon to Aristotle's Ethics: Against Subjectivism

- 3: Well-Being and Virtue

- 4: Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics

- Part II

- 5: Introduction to the Politics

- 6: Politics VII-VIII: The Ideal Polis

- 7: Politics I: Nature, Political Animals, and Civic Priority

- 8: Politics I: Slavery

- 9: Politics II: Family, Property, and Civic Unity

- 10: Politics III: Citizenship, Stability, and Obedience

- 11: Politics III: Correct Constitutions and the Common Good

- 12: Politics IV-VI: Non-Ideal Constitutions

- 13: Final Thoughts

- References, Index of Passages, General Index

Über Autor(innen)

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