This book offers a systematic overview of Aristotle's conception of well-being, virtue and justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then explores the major themes of Politics: civic-mindedness, slavery, family, property, the common good, class conflict, the limited wisdom of the multitude, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society.

• Part I


• 2: Prolegomenon to Aristotle's Ethics: Against Subjectivism


• 3: Well-Being and Virtue


• 4: Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics


• Part II


• 5: Introduction to the Politics


• 6: Politics VII-VIII: The Ideal Polis


• 7: Politics I: Nature, Political Animals, and Civic Priority


• 8: Politics I: Slavery


• 9: Politics II: Family, Property, and Civic Unity


• 10: Politics III: Citizenship, Stability, and Obedience


• 11: Politics III: Correct Constitutions and the Common Good


• 12: Politics IV-VI: Non-Ideal Constitutions


• 13: Final Thoughts


• References , Index of Passages, General Index

Richard Kraut is Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, US