Overview
- First edited volume to systematically reflect on the relationship between Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics
- Critically reflects on the coherence of Aristotle’s thinking about ethics and politics
- Argues that renewed reflection is necessary in order to provide a more thorough understanding of how ethics relates to politics for Aristotle
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy
- Ethical Politics or Political Realism
- How Political are Virtue and Happiness
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Relationship between the Ethics and Politics
- Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Aristotle’s Politics
- Justice in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics
- Between Friendship and Self-sufficiency
About this book
This book is the first collection of essays in English devoted solely to the relationship between Aristotle’s ethics and politics. Are ethics and politics two separate spheres of action or are they unified? Those who support the unity-thesis emphasize the centrality for Aristotle of questions about the good life and the common good as the purpose of politics. Those who defend the separation-thesis stress Aristotle’s sense of realism in understanding the need for political solutions to human shortcomings. But is this all there is to it? The contributors to this volume explore and develop different arguments and interpretative frameworks that help to make sense of the relationship between Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics. The chapters loosely follow the order of the Nicomachean Ethics in examining topics such as political science, statesmanship and magnanimity, justice, practical wisdom, friendship, and the relationship between the active and the contemplative life. They have in common an appreciation of the relevance of Aristotle’s writings, which offer the modern reader distinct philosophical perspectives on the relationship between ethics and politics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
René Brouwer (PhD Cambridge, MPhil Utrecht, LLM Amsterdam) teaches philosophy and law at the University of Utrecht. He has worked in thephilosophy and history of law as well as in ancient philosophy, with focus on Stoicism, including its origins and reception, and the tradition of natural law. Recent publications include: The Stoic Sage (CUP, 2014), ‘Stoic Sympathy’ in: Schliesser, E. (ed.), Sympathy (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), New York 2015, pp. 15-35, ‘Ulpian’s Appeal to Nature: Roman Law as Universal Law’, Legal History Review 83 (2015), pp. 60-76. His current research is on the interaction between law and philosophy in the late Roman republic as well as on conceptions of justice in antiquity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy
Book Subtitle: On the Relationship between His Ethics and Politics
Editors: Emma Cohen de Lara, René Brouwer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64825-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64824-8Published: 18 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87881-2Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64825-5Published: 08 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 194
Topics: Ethics, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Classical Philosophy, History of Philosophy