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Citizens and Statesmen: A Study of Aristotle’s Politics

By Mary P. Nichols

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
1991
ISBN
0847677028, 9780847677023
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16251370 bytes)
Series
Perspectives on Classical Political and Social Thought
Pages
288\246
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-05-18 12:29:27
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Description

Two important criticisms of contemporary liberalism turn to Aristotle's political thought for support that which advocates participatory democracy, and that sympathetic to the rule of a virtuous or philosophic elite. In this commentary on Aristotle's politics the author explores how Aristotle offers political rule as an alternative to both the rule of aristocratic virtue and an unchecked participatory democracy. Writing in lucid prose, she offers an interpretation grounded in a close reading of the text, and combining a respectful and patient attempt to understand Aristotle in his own terms with a wide, sympathetic, and argumentative reading in the secondary literature.

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