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Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics.
In this book, Kevin M. Cherry compares the views of Aristotle and Plato about the practice, study and, above all, purpose of politics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on the Translations; Introduction; 1: A Place for Politics: The Household and the City; The Search for the Statesman; The First Definition of the Statesman; Household Rule, Despotism, Kingship, and Politics in the Politics; 2: The Beginnings and Ends of Political Life; The Eleatic Stranger's Cosmology; Consequences of the Eleatic's Cosmology; The Purpose of Politics in the Statesman; Aristotle's Understanding of Nature.
- Aristotle's Political Teleology and the Beginning of the Politics3: Political Knowledge and Political Power; A New Beginning in the Search for the Statesman; The Eleatic Stranger's Division of Regimes; The Eleatic Stranger on Lawful Democracy; Aristotle's Rejection of the Eleatic's Typology; Political Communities and Political Knowledge; Aristotle on the Best Regime; 4: Political Inquiry According to Aristotle and the Eleatic Stranger; The Eleatic's Digression on Measure; Phronesis and the Mean; Aristotle and the Eleatic Stranger on Innovation.
- Aristotle and the Eleatic Stranger on the Purposes of Political Inquiry5: Philosophy and Politics in the Eleatic Stranger, Socrates, and Aristotle; The Eleatic Stranger and Socrates on Philosophy; Socrates and Statesmanship; Aristotle's Critique of Socrates in Light of the Statesman; Plato, Socrates, and the Eleatic Stranger; 6: Modern Politics, the Eleatic Stranger, and Aristotle; The Origins and Ends of Politics in Modern Political Thought; The Endless Aristotelian Revival; Aristotle's Teleology Today; The Good Life for Human Beings; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.