Aristotelian Citizenship for a Multicultural World
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…
Teaching American Politics in the Modern University
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…
Aristotelian Pluralism and Diversity: The Conditions for Civic Education and the Common Good
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…
A Philosophy of Prudence and the Purpose of Higher Education Today
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…
If Music Be Food For Citizenship
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…
On the Meaning of “Be Yourself”
“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
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,…
Augustine and the Problem of Power: The Augustinian Prognostic
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…
Aristotle and the Seriousness of Politics
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…
The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science
The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science. Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. Warsaw, Poland: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Waszawskiego, 2016. The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science…
“The Delicate Shimmer of Interlaced Rainbows”: Sunaisthesis, Homophrosynê and a Reply to My Friends
I thank Steven McGuire for organizing this symposium and Lee Trepanier for publishing it here on Voegelinview. Away from the friendships unfriendly that dominate the internet and…
Aristotle and Plato on Friendship
In The Form of Politics, John von Heyking directs his readers to the critical importance of friendship in the political thought of Aristotle and Plato. The title…
The Form of Politics as Friendship
I’d like to take a road trip with John von Heyking. I don’t know if he and I could ever achieve that rare gem which is friendship,…
Contemplating Friendship
John von Heyking’s analysis of friendship in The Form of Politics centers on the Greek concept of sunaisthesis, the triangle of perception and recognition that occurs when…
Friendship and “Filthy” Politics in Plato and Aristotle
The Italian philosopher and statesman, Benedetto Croce, once wrote that, “politics and filth are so frequently identified in the ordinary conversation of people that the thoughtful person…
