The Politics of Aristotle includes considerable discussion concerning the several categories of inhabitants of the various types of states existent at the time of Aristotle’s writing, as…
Ethics and Metaphysics Aristotle’s conception of ethics is consistent with Plato, his teacher’s notion that moral virtue is essential to human happiness and offers some useful and…
Introduction It seems a very propitious moment to think about Canadian and Southern history in conjunction given the recent and more or less concurrent bicentennial of the…
In the history of philosophy, what is the permanent achievement of the Pre-Socratics? Did they attain anything in thought that we can rightly credit to them? Or…
Aristotle identified man’s eating habits as one of the cornerstones of civilization—one of two activities that highlighted the nature of man’s exquisiteness (and barbarousness). The importance of eating to…
Walking toward us from the center of Raphael’s School of Athens are the two giants of Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle. By depicting Plato as an old…
One the debates confronting liberal democracies is how to conceive of citizenship in an age of multiculturalism. Liberal political theorists regard citizenship as primary a legal entity…
You may be surprised to learn of the growing movement to dispense with the study of American politics as a distinct subfield of political science, but this…
With the decline in social capital and the rise of the immigrant populace in the United States, there is renewed interest in civic education as a way…
In the past decade there have emerged several books that have spoken about the crisis in American higher education. However, what this crisis is and how do…
Aristotle and America As Aristotle observed in Book 8 of his Politics, the education of children is the preeminent concern of the state, for the cultivation of…
“Stay true. Be you.” “Stay true to yourself.” “Be who you are.” “Just be yourself.” “You do you.” These slogans are part of the fundamental fabric of…
Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science. Delba Winthrop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Delba Winthrop’s Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science is an outstanding piece of work. No,…
The problem of power is one of perennial interest and importance in human life, but at no period in history has it presented itself with greater urgency…
What does a politician “do”? Some would have it that he does not do much of anything. Others think that whatever it is that he does, he…
