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On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy
Alan Ryan
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Description for On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy
Paperback. An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle. Series: Liveright Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 117 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 136.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
Series
Liveright Classics
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490576
SKU
V9781631490576
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99-15
About Alan Ryan
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.
Reviews for On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy
"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."