America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class

ISBN-13: 9781481300544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 310 str.

Leslie G. Rubin

Opis

If the rule of the people is not to fall into demagoguery, then the body politic must remind itself of the requirements--both political and personal--of free, stable, and fair political life.--Carson Holloway, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Spis treści

• Introduction: Politics and the Political Animal
• Part I: Aristotle's Republic
• Chapter 1. A Practical Republic: Aristotle's Real-World Politics
• Chapter 2. Citizens, Rulers, and the Law: Aristotle on Political Authority
• Chapter 3. The Best Regime: Aristotle's Middle-Class Republic
• Part II: The American Founders' Republic
• Chapter 4. ""Happy Mediocrity"": America's Middle Class
• Chapter 5. Citizen Virtue: ""Simple Manners"" among the ""Laborious and Saving""
• Chapter 6. Securing America's Future: Moral Education in a Middle-Class Republic
• Conclusion: For Aristotle and America, Why the Middle Class Matters
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• General Index