Aristotle on the Nature of Community

includes index and biblioraphy

The historical Contest of Nature and Reason ............1 The Resources of Aristotle`s Politics ..........3 Difficulties with Reading Aristotle .........8 Interpretative strategies ...........2 The Natural Polis ............13 1. The Internal Principle of Change Interpretation of Nature ..........16 Nature as Arche Kineseos ........19 Kinesis in Natural Generation ........23 Actuality, Potentiality, and natural Movement...........25 Generation and Privation ..........33 2. The four arguments for the naturalness of the Polis .............42 Beginning again : The genetic argument ................43 In the end : The telic Argument ...........50 Speaking of : The Argument from Logos ...........56 Parts and wholes: The Morion Argument ............58 Against totalitarianism and Liberal Individualism ............64 Against Totalitarianism ...........64 Against liberal Individualism .............71 3. Logos and the political Nature of Anthropos .............83 Phone, logos, and political Life ........85 Logos and the Aristotelian Self ...........88 The priority of Logos .........93 Nous and logos ............100 4. The Natural Rational Human and the Natural Rational Polis ..........105 The Nature of Being Human : Logos ............107 Choice, Deliberation and Nature .............112 Choice without will : what depends on Us ........116 Political Freedom : Deliberating over ends ..........117 Ethical Life : Choice of what depends on our Efforts ......119 Nature, Human Reason, and the polis ...............124 5. Deliberation and Constitution ........135 Deliberation as Arche Kineseos .............136 6. Natural Slaves and silent women : The case for political Rule as Deliberation ............175 The Extremity of Natural Slavery in the politics .........178 Deliberation and nature ...........182 The inhumanity of Despotic Rule ..........187 Political Rule, Taking turns, and the Role of Women ..........192 Conclusions for Political Life ..........200