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Person, Polis, Planet

Author : David Schmidtz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199710872
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Person, Polis, Planet written by David Schmidtz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtz's essays on the question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live in a social and natural world. Part One defends a non-maximizing conception of rational choice, explains how even ultimate goals can be rationally chosen, defends the rationality of concern and regard for others (even to the point of being willing to die for a cause), and explains why decision theory is necessarily incomplete as a tool for addressing such issues. Part Two uses the tools of analytic philosophy to explain what we can do to be deserving ,what is wrong with the idea that we ought to do as much good as we can, why mutual aid is good, but why the welfare state does not work as a way of institutionalizing mutual aid, and why transferring wealth from those who need it less to those who need it more can be a bad idea even from a utilitarian perspective. Most ambitiously, Part Two offers an overarching, pluralistic moral theory that defines the nature and limits of our obligations to each other and to our individual selves. Part Three discusses the history and economic logic of alternative property institutions, both private and communal, and explains why economic logic is an indispensable tool in the field of environmental conflict resolution. In the final essay, Schmidtz brings the volume full circle by considering the nature and limits of our obligations to nonhuman species, and how the status of nonhuman species ought to enter into our deliberations about what sort of life is worth living.

Person, Polis, Planet

Author : David Schmidtz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190454296
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Person, Polis, Planet written by David Schmidtz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtz's essays on the question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live in a social and natural world. Part One defends a non-maximizing conception of rational choice, explains how even ultimate goals can be rationally chosen, defends the rationality of concern and regard for others (even to the point of being willing to die for a cause), and explains why decision theory is necessarily incomplete as a tool for addressing such issues. Part Two uses the tools of analytic philosophy to explain what we can do to be deserving ,what is wrong with the idea that we ought to do as much good as we can, why mutual aid is good, but why the welfare state does not work as a way of institutionalizing mutual aid, and why transferring wealth from those who need it less to those who need it more can be a bad idea even from a utilitarian perspective. Most ambitiously, Part Two offers an overarching, pluralistic moral theory that defines the nature and limits of our obligations to each other and to our individual selves. Part Three discusses the history and economic logic of alternative property institutions, both private and communal, and explains why economic logic is an indispensable tool in the field of environmental conflict resolution. In the final essay, Schmidtz brings the volume full circle by considering the nature and limits of our obligations to nonhuman species, and how the status of nonhuman species ought to enter into our deliberations about what sort of life is worth living.

Justice and Reciprocity in Aristotle's Political Philosophy

Author : Kazutaka Inamura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107110947
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Justice and Reciprocity in Aristotle's Political Philosophy by : Kazutaka Inamura

Download or read book Justice and Reciprocity in Aristotle's Political Philosophy written by Kazutaka Inamura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Aristotle's approaches to how to develop a political community based on the notions of justice and friendship.

The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis

Author : D. Brendan Nagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521849349
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis by : D. Brendan Nagle

Download or read book The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis written by D. Brendan Nagle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among ancient writers Aristotle offers the most profound analysis of the ancient Greek household and its relationship to the state. The household was not the family in the modern sense of the term, but a much more powerful entity with significant economic, political, social, and educational resources. The success of the polis in all its forms lay in the reliability of households to provide it with the kinds of citizens it needed to ensure its functioning. In turn, the state offered the members of its households a unique opportunity for humans to flourish. This 2006 book explains how Aristotle thought household and state interacted within the polis.

The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176176X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics written by Paula Gottlieb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.

Polis and City-state

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Polis and City-state written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Polis

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199208492
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Polis written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state. Mogens Herman Hansen addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political culture, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.

Polis & Politics

Author : Pernille Flensted-Jensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772896281
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Polis & Politics by : Pernille Flensted-Jensen

Download or read book Polis & Politics written by Pernille Flensted-Jensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.

Polis, the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polis, the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Needs, Values, Truth

Author : David Wiggins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198237198
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Needs, Values, Truth written by David Wiggins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author ranges between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language, looking at questions relating to meaning, truth and objectivity in judgements of value. For this third edition he has added a new essay on incommensurability, in addition to making minor revisions to the existing text. The volume will stand as a definitive summation of his work in this area.

Polis, Nation, Global Community

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000425800
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Polis, Nation, Global Community written by Ann Ward and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the basic tenets of nation, nationalism and citizenship. It explores the relevance of the nation-state to human freedom and flourishing, as well as the concept of citizenship that it implies, in contrast to that of the ancient polis and the "global community." The volume focusses on the shifting notions of various political concepts over time to present a systematic understanding of core concepts such as polis, nation and state from antiquity to the present. It includes contributions that analyze ancient and modern thought, and sections that address postmodern and contemporary thinkers, including Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, Weil, Grant and Manent. A comprehensive handbook to introductory politics, this book will be invaluable to students and teachers of political science, especially political theory, political philosophy, democracy, political participation and international relations theory.

Aristotle

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198782001
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle written by Richard Kraut and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times. Beginning with a critique of subjectivist accounts of well-being, Kraut goes on to assess Aristotle's objective and universalistic account ofeudaimonia and excellent activity. He offers a detailed interpretation of Aristotle's conception of justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then turns to the major themes of the Politics: the political nature of human beings, the city's priority over the individual, the justification of slavery, thedefence of the family and property, the pluralistic nature of cities and the need for their unification, the distinction between good citizenship and full virtue, the value and limits of popular control over elites, the corrosive effects of poverty and wealth, the critique of democratic conceptionsof freedom and equality, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society. Aristotle's political philosophy, as Kraut reads it, provides a model of the way in which a rich understanding of human well-being can guide the amelioration of a world in which agreement about the human goodis rarely, if ever, achieved.

Aristotle's Anthropology

Author : Geert Keil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107192692
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Anthropology written by Geert Keil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

Polis and Politics

Author : Andros Loizou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Polis and Politics written by Andros Loizou and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Only a Mother Could Love Him

Author : Benjamin Polis
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 034547189X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Only a Mother Could Love Him written by Benjamin Polis and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man takes readers on a deeply personal journey into the mind of an individual with ADD as he describes his struggle with hyperactivity and attention deficit, its effects on his entire family, and his own successful use of self-taught concentration techniques to overcome the problem, accompanied by advice on medication, discipline, schoolwork, and coping strategies. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction

Author : Sean McAleer
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800640560
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction written by Sean McAleer and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an excellent book – highly intelligent, interesting and original. Expressing high philosophy in a readable form without trivialising it is a very difficult task and McAleer manages the task admirably. Plato is, yet again, intensely topical in the chaotic and confused world in which we are now living. Philip Allott, Professor Emeritus of International Public Law at Cambridge University This book is a lucid and accessible companion to Plato’s Republic, throwing light upon the text’s arguments and main themes, placing them in the wider context of the text’s structure. In its illumination of the philosophical ideas underpinning the work, it provides readers with an understanding and appreciation of the complexity and literary artistry of Plato’s Republic. McAleer not only unpacks the key overarching questions of the text – What is justice? And Is a just life happier than an unjust life? – but also highlights some fascinating, overlooked passages which contribute to our understanding of Plato’s philosophical thought. Plato’s 'Republic': An Introduction offers a rigorous and thought-provoking analysis of the text, helping readers navigate one of the world’s most influential works of philosophy and political theory. With its approachable tone and clear presentation, it constitutes a welcome contribution to the field, and will be an indispensable resource for philosophy students and teachers, as well as general readers new to, or returning to, the text.

Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art

Author : Amy C. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004214526
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art written by Amy C. Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study Dr Smith investigates the use of political personifications in the visual arts of Athens in the Classical period (480-323 BCE). Whether on objects that served primarily private roles (e.g. decorated vases) or public roles (e.g. cult statues and document stelai), these personifications represented aspects of the state of Athens—its people, government, and events—as well as the virtues (e.g. Nemesis, Peitho or Persuasion, and Eirene or Peace) that underpinned it. Athenians used the same figural language to represent other places and their peoples. This is the only study that uses personifications as a lens through which to view the intellectual and political climate of Athens in the Classical period.