The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

One Of The Most Influential Works In The History Of Political Theory, Aristotle's 'politics' Is A Treatise In Practical Philosophy, Intended To Inform Legislators And To Create The Conditions For Virtuous And Self-sufficient Lives For The Citizens Of A State. In This 'companion', Distinguished Scholars Offer New Perspectives On The Work And Its Themes. After An Opening Exploration Of The Relation Between Aristotle's Ethics And His Politics, The Central Chapters Follow The Sequence Of The Eight Books Of The 'politics', Taking Up Questions Such As The Role Of Reason In Legitimizing Rule, The Common Good, Justice, Slavery, Private Property, Citizenship, Democracy And Deliberation, Unity, Conflict, Law And Authority, And Education. The Closing Chapters Discuss The Interaction Between Aristotle's Political Thought And Contemporary Democratic Theory. The Volume Will Provide A Valuable Resource For Those Studying Ancient Philosophy, Classics, And The History Of Political Thought. Introduction / Marguerite Deslauries And Pierre Destrée -- The Political Character Of Aritstotle's Ethics / Dorothea Frede -- The Rule Of Reason / Fred D. Miller, Jr. -- Economy And Private Property / Karen Margrethe Nielsen -- Natural Slavery / Pierre Pellegrin (translated By E. Zoli Filotas) -- Political Unity And Inequality / Marguerite Deslauries -- Civic Virtue : Citizenship, Ostracism, And War / Andrés Rosler -- The Common Good / Donald Morrison -- Natural, Ethical, And Political Justice / Marco Zingano -- Law, Governance, And Political Obligation / Christoph Horn -- Claims To Rule : The Case Of The Multitude / Melissa Lane -- Faction / Antony Hatzistavrou -- Education, Leisure, And Politics / Pierre Destrée -- Deliberating And Acting Together / Bryan Garsten -- Aristotle And Rawls On The Common Good / Richard Kraut -- Further Reading / Thornton Lockwood -- Index Locorum -- Index Of Names And Subjects. Edited By Marguerite Deslauriers And Pierre Destrée. Series Title From Publisher's Web Site. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Politics 6 Contents 8 List of contributors 10 Acknowledgements 14 Abbreviations 16 Marguerite Deslauriers and Pierre Destrée: Introduction 18 Works cited 27 Notes 28 1 Dorothea Frede: The political character of Aristotle’s ethics 31 Introduction: the importance of political science 31 Politics as the regulator of the good life 33 The problem of the imprecision of ethics 36 Moral education and the individual 39 Wish, deliberation, and decision 42 Universal and particular knowledge 45 Conclusions: Aristotle – an architectonic scientist of life? 49 Works cited 50 Notes 51 2 Fred D. Miller, Jr: The rule of reason 55 Moral psychology and virtue ethics 56 Basic framework: psychological types and kinds of rule 60 The rule of reason in pre-political associations 64 The rule of reason in political constitutions 70 Conclusion 79 Works cited 80 Notes 80 3 Karen Margrethe Nielsen: Economy and private property 84 Natural and unnatural acquisition 87 “Friends have everything in common” 92 Aristotle’s questions for Plato 94 Common use: Platonism by another name? 99 Liturgies and the practice of philanthropy 102 Works cited 105 Notes 106 4 Pierre Pellegrin: Natural slavery 109 Concept of slavery 111 Slaveryis advantageous for the master as well as the slave 122 Conclusion 129 Works cited 130 Notes 131 5 Marguerite Deslauriers: Political unity and inequality 134 Introduction 134 Community( KOINÔNIA) and commonality 136 Unity 139 Inequalities and differences 148 Conclusion 155 Works cited 156 Notes 157 6 Andrés Rosler: Civic virtue: citizenship, ostracism, and war 161 Introduction 161 Civic virtue 163 That thing you do: the tasks of a citizen 163 An oficer and a gentleman? The good citizen and the good person 164 Nice work if you can get it: Who can display civic virtue? 166 Two conceptions of citizenship: comprehensive civic virtue and political civic virtue 168 Ostracism 170 It had to be you 170 Peace or pacifism: peace as the aim of war 174 Freedom fighters: war justified as self-defense 176 Slavery fighters: war justified on the basis of natural slavery 178 Follow the leader: war justified as a beneit 179 If I ruled the world? Aristotle’s rejection of cosmopolitanism 183 Works cited 185 Notes 187 7 Donald Morrison: The common good 193 Introduction 193 The common good as common goal 194 A central text 195 Good and bad forms of rule 197 Four interpretations of the “common good” 199 Plato and Aristotle on the aim of the ruler 206 Justice is the common good 207 Civic friendship and the common good 210 Conclusion 212 Works cited 212 Notes 213 8 Marco Zingano: Natural, ethical, and political justice 216 Works cited 234 Notes 234 9 Christoph Horn: Law, governance, and political obligation 240 Works cited 261 Notes 262 10 Melissa Lane: Claims to rule: the case of the multitude 264 Introduction: framing the claims to rule of the many, the few, and the one 264 Institutional framework: from claims to rule to claims to office 266 Arguments for the “wisdom of the multitude” in iii 11 and iii 15 269 Objections to the “wisdom of the multitude” and Aristotle’s replies 281 Conclusion: Aristotle as Schumpeterian? 285 Works cited 286 Notes 288 11 Antony Hatzistavrou: Faction 292 Typology of faction 293 Psychology of faction 298 Sociology of political faction 304 Conclusion 312 Works cited 312 Notes 313 12 Pierre Destrée: Education, leisure, and politics 318 Education and politics 319 Happiness and leisure 325 Musical education 333 Coda 336 Works cited 337 Notes 338 13 Bryan Garsten: Deliberating and acting together 341 Deliberation and democratic individualism 345 Deliberation and political agency 347 Deliberation and democracy 351 Acting together 357 Works cited 362 Notes 364 14 Richard Kraut: Aristotle and Rawls on the common good 367 Aristotle on the common advantage 367 Rawls on goodness as rationality 369 Political liberalism and profound social division 371 Goodness and plans 374 The Aristotelian principle and perfectionism 376 Aristotle revived: flourishing and human development 380 Happiness 386 Works cited 389 Notes 389 Thornton Lockwood: Further Reading 392 Index locorum 424 Index of names and subjects 436 "One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's 'Politics' is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this 'Companion', distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on the work and its themes. After an opening exploration of the relation between Aristotle's ethics and his politics, the central chapters follow the sequence of the eight books of the 'Politics', taking up questions such as the role of reason in legitimizing rule, the common good, justice, slavery, private property, citizenship, democracy and deliberation, unity, conflict, law and authority, and education. The closing chapters discuss the interaction between Aristotle's political thought and contemporary democratic theory. The volume will provide a valuable resource for those studying ancient philosophy, classics, and the history of political thought."--Back cover Introduction - Marguerite Deslauriers and Pierre Destrée 1. The political character of Aristotle's ethics - Dorothea Frede 2. The rule of reason - Fred D. Miller, Jr 3. Economy and private property - Karen Margrethe Nielsen 4. Natural slavery - Pierre Pellegrin (translated by E. Zoli Filotas) 5. Political unity and inequality - Marguerite Deslauriers 6. Civic virtue: citizenship, ostracism, and war - Andrés Rosler 7. The common good - Donald Morrison 8. Natural, ethical, and political justice - Marco Zingano 9. Law, governance, and political obligation - Christoph Horn 10. Claims to rule: the case of the multitude - Melissa Lane 11. Faction - Antony Hatzistavrou 12. Education, leisure and politics - Pierre Destrée 13. Deliberating and acting together - Bryan Garsten 14. Aristotle and Rawls on the common good - Richard Kraut Further reading - Thornton Lockwood