In this follow up to The Eudemian Ethics of Aristotle, Peter L. P. Simpson centres his attention on the basics of Aristotelian moral doctrine as found in the Great Ethics: the definition of happiness, the nature and kind of the virtues, pleasure, and friendship. This work's authenticity is disputed, but Simpson argues that all the evidence favours it. Unlike the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics, Aristotle wrote the Great Ethics for a popular audience. It gives us insight less into Aristotle the theoretician than into...

Political Illiberalism deconstructs the story of liberalism that John Rawls, author of Political Liberalism, and many others have put forward. Peter L. P. Simpson argues that political liberalism is despotic because it denies politics a concern with the comprehensive human good and that political illiberalism overcomes this despotism and restores genuine freedom. This work provides a detailed account of these political phenomena and presents a political theory opposed to that of the proponents of modern liberalism.

Simpson analyzes and confronts the assumptions of...