The Logos of the Wise in the Politeia of the Many: Recent Books on Aristotle's Political Philosophy

Political Theory

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 835-860

  Mara, Gerald M ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84997884139     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591700028006007     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Cf. Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 134–35.
2. Martha Nussbaum, “Aristotelian Social Democracy,” in Liberalism and the Good, ed. R. Bruce Douglass, Gerald Mara, and Henry Richardson (New York: Routledge, 1990), 203–52.
3. Stephen Salkever, Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991), 39.
4. Cf. Mary Nichols, Citizens and Statesmen (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1992), 185–86 nn. 26, 27.
5. The limits of Spartan courage from the point of view of true or authentic courage are implied in the Nicomachean Ethics (1116al5–b3).
6. See also Stephen White, Sovereign Virtue (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991), 224–29.
7. Nichols, Citizens and Statesmen, 184 n. 24.
8. I discuss the pedagogy of Aristotle's treatment of slavery in “The Near Made Far Away: The Role of Cultural Criticism in Aristotle's Political Theory,” Political Theory 23 (1995): 280–303.
9. Cf. Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 6.1, 8.4.
10. Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 373–77.
11. I discuss this passage and Aristotle's praise of the noble, generally, at much greater length in “The Near Made Far Away,” 287–94.
12. Salkever, Finding the Mean, chap. 5.
13. I discuss the possibilities of a dialogic interpretation of the Ethics in “Interrogating the Identities of Excellence: Liberal Education and Democratic Culture in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics,” Polity 31 (1998): 301–29.
14. Bernard Yack, The Problems of a Political Animal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 140–49.