• Aristotle: Political Philosophy (Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought)
  • Author: Richard Kraut
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press 
  • Publication Date: April 18, 2002
  • Print Length: 536 Pages
  • Product Description

This book offers a systematic overview of Aristotle’s conception of well-being, virtue and justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then explores the major themes of Politics: civic-mindedness, slavery, family, property, the common good, class conflict, the limited wisdom of the multitude, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society.

  • About the Author

Richard Kraut is Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, US

  • Review

“The work has a good bibliography, enabling readers to increase their knowledge and, where necessary, to decide to what extent the interpretation of Aristotle remains a matter of controversy.” The Philosophical Quarterly