[PDF] The Problems Of A Political Animal eBook

Author : Bernard Yack
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520913507

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A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political justice and the rule of law to class struggle and moral conflict, Yack maintains that Aristotle intended to explain the conditions of everyday political life, not just, as most commentators assume, to represent the hypothetical achievements of an idealistic "best regime." By showing how Aristotelian ideas can provide new insight into our own political life, Yack makes a valuable contribution to contemporary discourse and debate. His work will excite interest among a wide range of social, moral, and political theorists. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993. A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political j

Author : Rick Shenkman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0465073824

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Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics, and history, Shenkman explores the hidden forces behind our often illogical choices. Political Animals challenges us to go beyond the headlines, which often focus on what politicians do (or say they'll do), and to concentrate instead on what's really important: what shapes our response. Shenkman argues that, contrary to what we tell ourselves, it's our instincts rather than arguments appealing to reason that usually prevail. Pop culture tells us we can trust our instincts, but science is proving that when it comes to politics our Stone Age brain often malfunctions, misfires, and leads us astray. Fortunately, we can learn to make our instincts work in our favor. Shenkman takes readers on a whirlwind tour of laboratories where scientists are exploring how sea slugs remember, chimpanzees practice deception, and patients whose brains have been split in two tell stories. The scientists' findings give us new ways of understanding our history and ourselves -- and prove we don't have to be prisoners of our evolutionary past." In this engaging, illuminating, and often riotous chronicle of our political culture, Shenkman probes the depths of the human mind to explore how we can become more political, and less animal.

Author : Juhana Toivanen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9004438467

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In The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy Juhana Toivanen investigates the foundations of human social life through the Aristotelian notion of ‘political animal’, as it was used in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Author : Geert Keil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107192692

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The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

Author : Stephen R L Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134658605

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People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings who are naturally equipped, and inclined, to reason and work together, create social bonds and care for their young. Stephen Clark, grounded in biological analysis and traditional ethics, probes into areas ignored in mainstream political theory and argues for the significance of social bonds which bypass or transcend state authority. Understanding the ties that bind us reveals how enormously capable we are in achieving civil order as a species. Stephen Clark advocates that a properly informed political philosophy must take into account the role of women, children, animals, minorities and the domestic virtues at large. Living and comnducting our political lives like the animals we are is a more congenial prospect than is usually supposed.

Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226284026

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In this novel reading of Aristotle's 'Politics', Eugene Garver traces the implications of the claim that 'man is a political animal', arguing that Aristotle challenges contemporary understandings of human action and allows us to better see ourselves.

Author : David J. Riesbeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107107024

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A unified interpretation of Aristotle's views about the distinctive nature and value of political community, rule and participation.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 1981-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141913266

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Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.

Author : Marcel Wissenburg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349683086

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While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined. There are key political implications in the increase of animal protection laws, the rights of nature, and political parties dedicated to animals.

Author : Robert Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199936315

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At the same time, he argues that humans have a greater interest in life and liberty than most species of nonhuman animals.