Nature and justice : studies in the ethical and political philosophy of Plato and Aristotle /

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Author / Creator:Keyt, David, author.
Imprint:Leuven : Peeters, 2017.
Description:xiv, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Aristote, traductions et etudes
Editions de l'Institut Superieur de Philosophie Louvain-La-Neuve
Aristote, traductions et eĢtudes.
Editions de l'Institut Superieur de Philosophie Louvain-La-Neuve.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11022389
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ISBN:9789042933828
9042933828
9782758402664
2758402661
Notes:Collection of texts partly published previously.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:A collection of articles on Plato's 'Republic' and Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' and 'Politics'. The newly written introductory chapter offers a sketch of the metaphysical foundations of Plato's and Aristotle's ethical and political philosophy. Two chapters on the Republic examine Plato's account of justice and his use of the ship of state metaphor. The remainder of the book is devoted to Aristotle and discusses such topics as his view of the best life for a man, his political naturalism, his proto-anarchism, his theory of distributive justice, and his ideal polis. The final chapters, also newly written, address the unattractive features of Aristotle's political ideal - natural slavery, the subordination of women, and the denigration of technical skill - and argue that these feature are in fact inconsistent with the basic principles of his ethical and political philosophy. The volume ends with a defense of the claim that Aristotle's political philosophy, once shorn of its excrescences, is updateable to the twenty-first century.
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