Acknowledgments
Introduction 3
1 Aristotle's Teleology and the Tradition of Evaluative Explanation 13
2 Theorizing the Human Good 57
3 How Theory Informs Practice: Virtues and Rules in Aristotelian Practical Philosophy 105
4 Gendered Virtue: Plato and Aristotle on the Politics of Virility 165
5 Reconceiving Liberal Democracy, Part I: Democracy as a Range of Possibilities 205
6 Reconceiving Liberal Democracy, Part II: Liberal Virtues and the Public Life 237
References 265
Index 283
Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposition between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism, between the politics of rights and the politics of virtues.
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