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: 9780742534247
• ISBN10: 0742534243
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-28
• 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 aim to address, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy. Written by leading scholars in lucid and accessible style, the nine essays in this volume will be a critical resource for newcomers to Aristotle.

Table of Contents

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