
On Aristotle
Saving Politics from Philosophy
Alan Ryan(Author)
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published on 18. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-63149-057-6 (ISBN)
Description
In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men. His strongly empirical cast of mind was brought to bear on a stunning range of subjects and the resulting system dominated European thought from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries. Aristotle's meticulous thinking on the nature of human affairs, ethics, politics, citizenship and virtue in a civil society remains as vital today as it was in his own time. Including key sections from Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, Aristotle's only surviving works, with a new introduction by Alan Ryan and a chronology of the philosopher's life and works, On Aristotle contextualises Aristotle's views of government and the political community within the Ancient World.
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"A compact and accessible introduction to Aristotle, whose thought, together with that of his teacher Plato, constitutes the bedrock of much of Western civilization... Ryan's erudite and engaging introduction is followed by substantial extracts from Aristotle's political works, making this text ideal for classroom use."More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Dimensions
Height: 183 mm
Width: 116 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
131 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63149-057-6 (9781631490576)
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Person
Alan Ryan, after decades at Princeton University, was warden of New College, University of Oxford, where he was a professor of political theory. He is the author of John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and Bertrand Russell: A Political Life, among other works.