Aristotle's Politics Critical Essays

by Kraut, Richard; Skultety, Steven; Barnes, Jonathan; Cooper, John M.; Frede, Dorothea; Holmes, Stephen Taylor; Keyt, David; Miller, Fred D., Jr.; Ober, Josiah; Salkever, Stephen G.; Schofield, Malcolm; Waldron, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780742534230
• ISBN10: 0742534235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-12
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many readers of Aristotle are uncertain whether his Politics has any contribution to make to contemporary debates about political life and political theory. The essays in this volume sharpen this issue by addressing, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Aristotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy. Written by leading scholars in lucid and accessible style, the ten essays in this volume will prove to be a critical resource for newcomers to Aristotle. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
Abbreviations	xvii
1 Aristippus in and out of Athens	1	(26)
Stephen Taylor Holmes
2 Aristotle's Social Science	27	(38)
Stephen G. Salkever
3 Political Animals and Civic Friendship	65	(26)
John M. Cooper
4 Ideology and Philosophy in Aristotle's Theory of Slavery	91	(30)
Malcolm Schofield
5 Property Rights in Aristotle	121	(24)
Fred D. Miller Jr.
6 The Wisdom of the Multitude: Some Reflections on Book III, Chapter 11 of Aristotle's Politics	145	(22)
Jeremy Waldron
7 Citizenship in Aristotle's Politics	167	(18)
Dorothea Frede
8 Aristotle and Political Liberty	185	(18)
Jonathan Barnes
9 Aristotle and Anarchism	203	(20)
David Keyt
10 Aristotle's Natural Democracy	223	(22)
Josiah Ober
Bibliography	245	(10)
About the Editors and Contributors	255