Aristotle and Modern Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy

by: Tessitore, A.

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Despite the separation between classical and modern theories of government, contributors to Aristotle and Modern Politics find Aristotle a useful interlocutor for assessing both possibilities and limitations in contemporary politics. In this collection, noted political scientists, theologians, and philosophers discuss the magnitude of Aristotle's presence in contemporary debate and demonstrate some of the ways in which Aristotle sheds new light on contemporary problems. This engaging book also exhibits the persistence of political philosophy at a time when the pervasive influence of "ideology" and "historicism" lead many to deny its possibility. Although the authors of these essays differ on the nature of Aristotle's contribution, all are united by the conviction that he has something important to teach citizens of modern political societies. If the fundamental principles of modern politics were drawn from critical reflections of reason over and against the imposition of authority under its various guises, modern politics can best sustain itself by nurturing the critical attitude that initially brought it into being. Paradoxically, serious engagement with the "preliberal" thought of Aristotle can render contemporary debate more fruitful by bringing to light subtle limitations in the political discourse of any era, including our own. If the modern understanding of freedom is primarily freedom to speak and think for oneself, the essays in Aristotle and Modern Politics exhibit the persistence of political philosophy by thinking beyond limits often constricting contemporary paradigms.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Renaissance in Aristotelian Studies and the Persistence of Political Philosophy 1 (18)
Aristide Tessitore
Part One THE PROBLEM OF COMMUNITY
Community: An Aristotelian Social Theory
19 (28)
Bernard Yack
Aristotelian Social Democracy
47 (58)
Martha C. Nussbaum
Justice and the Dilemma of Moral Virtue in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
105 (28)
Susan D. Collins
Part Two VIRTUE
MacIntyre and Aristotle on the Foundation of Virtue
133 (29)
Aristide Tessitore
Leo Strauss's Aristotle and Martin Heidegger's Politics
162 (46)
David K. O'Connor
Liberalism's Need for Virtue and Christian Theology
208 (25)
Charles R. Pinches
Part Three LAW, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS
The Middle Way: What Contemporary Liberal Legal Theorists Can Learn from Aristotle
233 (25)
Miriam Galston
Integrating Public Good and Private Right: The Virtue of Property
258 (20)
Jill Frank
Aristotelianism, Commerce, and the Liberal Order
278 (29)
Douglas J. Den Uyl
Douglas B. Rasmussen
Part Four THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN POLITICS
The Culture of Democracy: Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia as Political Theory
307 (35)
Gerald M. Mara
The Deliberative Model of Democracy and Aristotle's Ethics of Natural Questions
342 (33)
Stephen S. Salkever
Aristotelian Autonomy
375 (28)
Fred D. Miller, Jr.
Contributors 403 (4)
Index 407
 

Aristotle and Modern Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy

by: Tessitore, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780268020149 / 978-0-268-02014-9
• ISBN-03: 0268020140 / 0-268-02014-0
• University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2002

Price: 44,00 EURO

1 copy in stock