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Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality - The Plurality of Rule (Hardcover)
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Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality - The Plurality of Rule (Hardcover)
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Connecting several strands of Aristotle's thought, Zoli Filotas
sheds light on one of the axioms of Aristotle's ethics and
political philosophy - that every community has a ruler - and
demonstrates its relevance to his ideas on personal relationships.
Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality
reveals a pluralistic theory of rule in Aristotle's thought,
tracing it through his corpus and situating it in a discussion
among such figures as Gorgias, Xenophon, and Plato. Considering the
similarities and differences among various forms of rule, Filotas
shows that for Aristotle even virtuous friends must exercise a
version of rule akin to that of slaveholders. He also explores why
Aristotle distinguishes the hierarchical rule over women from both
the mastery of slaves and the political rule exercised by free and
equal citizens. In doing so, he argues that natural and social
differences among human beings play a complex, and troubling, role
in Aristotle's reasoning. Illuminating and thought-provoking, this
book reveals Aristotle's ambivalence about political relations and
the equal treatment they involve and offers an engaging inquiry
into how he understood the common structures of human
relationships.
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