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Author Riesbeck, David J., 1980- author.

Title Aristotle on political community / David J. Riesbeck, Rice University, Houston
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Community and Exclusion; Chapter 1 Paradoxes of Monarchy; 1. Aristotle's Defense of Kingship; 2. Normative and Conceptual Problems of Monarchy; Chapter 2 Community, Friendship, and Justice; 1. The Idea of Community; 2. Community, Distribution, and Exchange; 3. Community and Friendship; 4. The Varieties of Friendship; 5. Wishing for the Good of the Friend; 6. The Coextensiveness of Community, Justice, and Friendship; 7. Community and Justice
8. Justice and FriendshipChapter 3 From the Household to the City; 1. The Household as a Community; 2. The Village as a Community; 3. Self-Sufficiency and Living Well; 4. Law, Justice, and Self-Sufficiency; 5. Varieties of Self-Sufficiency; 6. Living and Living Well; Chapter 4 Rule and Justice in the Household and the City; 1. Ruling; 2. Forms of Rule in the Household; 3. Political Rule; 4. The Good of Political Rule; 5. The Justice of Ruling and Being Ruled; Chapter 5 Citizenship, Constitutions, and Political Justice; 1. Citizens and Constitutions: Problems and Proposed Solutions
2. Aristotle's Rejection of "Second-Class Citizens"3. Citizens and the Scope of the Common Good; 4. Justice and the Principle of Nondespotic Rule; 5. Citizenship and Degrees of Authority; 6. Citizenship and the Ruling Body; 7. Degrees of What?; 8. Justice and the Distribution of Citizenship; Chapter 6 Kingship as Political Rule and Political Community; 1. Kingship, Tyranny, and the Consent of the Ruled; 2. Ruling and Being Ruled in Turn; 3. Kingship and the Rule of Law; 4. Incomparable Virtue; 5. Kingship and the Household; 6. Kingship's Positive and Negative Critical Functions
7. Aristotelian Kingship and Platonic Political KnowledgeConclusion: Ruling and Being Ruled; References; Index; Index Locorum
Summary A unified interpretation of Aristotle's views about the distinctive nature and value of political community, rule and participation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Aristotle -- Political and social views
Aristotle. Politics.
SUBJECT Aristotle fast
Politics (Aristotle) fast
Subject Kings and rulers
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Kings and rulers
Political and social views
Form Electronic book
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