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Aristotle's political imagination capitalizes on the virtues of a
middle-class republic. America's experiment in republican liberty
bears striking similarities to Aristotle's best political
regimeaespecially at the point of the middling class and its public
role. Author Leslie Rubin, by holding America up to the mirror of
Aristotle, explores these correspondences and their many
implications for contemporary political life. Rubin begins with the
Politics , in which Aristotle asserts the best political regime
maintains stability by balancing oligarchic and democratic
tendencies, and by treating free and relatively equal people as
capable of a good life within a law-governed community that
practices modest virtues. The second part of the book focuses upon
America, showing how its founding opinion leaders prioritized the
virtues of the middle in myriad ways. Rubin uncovers a surprising
range of evidence, from moderate property holding by a large
majority of the populace to citizen experience of both ruling and
being ruled. She singles out the importance of the respect for the
middle-class virtues of industriousness, sobriety, frugality,
honesty, public spirit, and reasonable compromise. Rubin also
highlights the educational institutions that foster the middle
classapublic education affords literacy, numeracy, and job skills,
while civic education provides the history and principles of the
nation as well as the rights and duties of all its citizens. Wise
voices from the past, both of ancient Greece and postcolonial
America, commend the middle class. The erosion of a middle class
and the descent of political debate into polarized hysteria
threaten a democratic republic. If the rule of the people is not to
fall into demagoguery, then the body politic must remind itself of
the requirementsaboth political and personalaof free, stable, and
fair political life.
Do we believe the law good because it is just, or is it just
because we think it is good? This collection of essays addresses
the relationship of justice to law through the works of Homer,
Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and the Islamic thinker al
Farabi. The issues explored include the foundations of our
understanding of justice; the foundation of authority of law; the
relative merits of the rule of law versus the authority of a wise
and just king; the uneasy relationship between particular laws and
the general notion of justice (equity); various aspects of justice
(reciprocity, proportionality) and their application in law; and
the necessity of the rule of law to the goodness and success of a
political order. The distinguished contributors often make explicit
comparisons to modern situations and contemporary debates. This
book will be valuable for those interested in classical political
theory, political philosophy, and law.
Do we believe the law good because it is just, or is it just
because we think it is good? This collection of essays addresses
the relationship of justice to law through the works of Homer,
Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and the Islamic thinker al
Farabi. The issues explored include the foundations of our
understanding of justice; the foundation of authority of law; the
relative merits of the rule of law versus the authority of a wise
and just king; the uneasy relationship between particular laws and
the general notion of justice (equity); various aspects of justice
(reciprocity, proportionality) and their application in law; and
the necessity of the rule of law to the goodness and success of a
political order. The distinguished contributors often make explicit
comparisons to modern situations and contemporary debates. This
book will be valuable for those interested in classical political
theory, political philosophy, and law.
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