The Problems Of A Political Animal

Author : Bernard Yack
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520913509

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The Problems of a Political Animal by Bernard Yack Pdf

A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political justice and the rule of law to class struggle and moral conflict, Yack maintains that Aristotle intended to explain the conditions of everyday political life, not just, as most commentators assume, to represent the hypothetical achievements of an idealistic "best regime." By showing how Aristotelian ideas can provide new insight into our own political life, Yack makes a valuable contribution to contemporary discourse and debate. His work will excite interest among a wide range of social, moral, and political theorists.

Author : Stephen R L Clark,Stephen R.L Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134658596

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The Political Animal by Stephen R L Clark,Stephen R.L Clark Pdf

People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings who are naturally equipped, and inclined, to reason and work together, create social bonds and care for their young. Stephen Clark, grounded in biological analysis and traditional ethics, probes into areas ignored in mainstream political theory and argues for the significance of social bonds which bypass or transcend state authority. Understanding the ties that bind us reveals how enormously capable we are in achieving civil order as a species. Stephen Clark advocates that a properly informed political philosophy must take into account the role of women, children, animals, minorities and the domestic virtues at large. Living and comnducting our political lives like the animals we are is a more congenial prospect than is usually supposed.

Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141937502

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The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman Pdf

Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but here he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers: • that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhood • why Trollope is the politician’s novelist of choice • that Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripper • how an Admiral’s speech in parliament helped win WWII Where do politicians come from? How do they get elected? What do they do all day? And why do they seek power? All these questions and many more are addressed in Paxman’s thrilling dissection of that strange and elusive breed – the political animal.

Author : Geert Keil,Nora Kreft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107192690

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Aristotle's Anthropology by Geert Keil,Nora Kreft Pdf

The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

Author : Juhana Toivanen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438460

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The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy by Juhana Toivanen Pdf

In The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy Juhana Toivanen investigates the foundations of human social life through the Aristotelian notion of ‘political animal’, as it was used in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226284040

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Aristotle's Politics by Eugene Garver Pdf

“Man is a political animal,” Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the Politics. In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, Eugene Garver traces the surprising implications of Aristotle’s claim and explores the treatise’s relevance to ongoing political concerns. Often dismissed as overly grounded in Aristotle’s specific moment in time, in fact the Politics challenges contemporary understandings of human action and allows us to better see ourselves today. Close examination of Aristotle’s treatise, Garver finds, reveals a significant, practical role for philosophy to play in politics. Philosophers present arguments about issues—such as the right and the good, justice and modes of governance, the relation between the good person and the good citizen, and the character of a good life—that politicians must then make appealing to their fellow citizens. Completing Garver’s trilogy on Aristotle’s unique vision, Aristotle’s Politics yields new ways of thinking about ethics and politics, ancient and modern.

Author : David J. Riesbeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107021

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Aristotle on Political Community by David J. Riesbeck Pdf

A unified interpretation of Aristotle's views about the distinctive nature and value of political community, rule and participation.

Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0718146069

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The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman Pdf

Author : Bob Torres
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781904859673

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Making a Killing by Bob Torres Pdf

Using Marxism, anarchism, and social ecology to explore domination, power, and hierarchy, the author criticizes the use and abuse of animals in capitalist society and argues for the abolition of animal involvement in industry and as a human food source.

Author : Rick Shenkman
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465073825

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Political Animals by Rick Shenkman Pdf

Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics, and history, Shenkman explores the hidden forces behind our often illogical choices. Political Animals challenges us to go beyond the headlines, which often focus on what politicians do (or say they'll do), and to concentrate instead on what's really important: what shapes our response. Shenkman argues that, contrary to what we tell ourselves, it's our instincts rather than arguments appealing to reason that usually prevail. Pop culture tells us we can trust our instincts, but science is proving that when it comes to politics our Stone Age brain often malfunctions, misfires, and leads us astray. Fortunately, we can learn to make our instincts work in our favor. Shenkman takes readers on a whirlwind tour of laboratories where scientists are exploring how sea slugs remember, chimpanzees practice deception, and patients whose brains have been split in two tell stories. The scientists' findings give us new ways of understanding our history and ourselves -- and prove we don't have to be prisoners of our evolutionary past." In this engaging, illuminating, and often riotous chronicle of our political culture, Shenkman probes the depths of the human mind to explore how we can become more political, and less animal.

Author : Graham Wallas
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412825695

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Human Nature in Politics by Graham Wallas Pdf

If he had been pressed, Macaulay would probably have admitted that there are cases in which human acts and impulses to act occur independently of any idea of an end to be gained by them. If I have a piece of grit in my eye and ask some one to take it out with the corner of his handkerchief, I generally close the eye as soon as the handkerchief comes near, and always feel a strong impulse to do so. Nobody supposes that I close my eye because, after due consideration, I think it my interest to do so.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141913261

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The Politics by Aristotle Pdf

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.

Author : Chris Danta,Dimitris Vardoulakis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299238339

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The Political Animal by Chris Danta,Dimitris Vardoulakis Pdf

In the variegated history of the philosophical definitions of man, one has survived since it has been given the status of the self-evident. The definition in question comes from Aristotle’s Politics: “the human is a political animal” (1253a3). There is something indisputable about this characterization: humans are, indeed, the most social of animals – they are denizens of the polis with its institutions and laws, its rulers, judges and generals. It would be difficult to contend that any other animal has recourse to the political as much as the human. Aristotle’s Politics need not be surrendered to the strictures of humanism. It remains amenable to the new schema for the political animal that we are sketching here. Each article collected in this issue responds – in its own way and by establishing its own protocols – to the exigency of the animal as it was formulated in Aristotle’s Politics. Each article is an act of response, a moment of interruption.

Author : Marcel Wissenburg,David Schlosberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349683086

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Political Animals and Animal Politics by Marcel Wissenburg,David Schlosberg Pdf

While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined. There are key political implications in the increase of animal protection laws, the rights of nature, and political parties dedicated to animals.

Author : Anna Barcz,Dorota Łagodzka
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004386228

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Animals and Their People by Anna Barcz,Dorota Łagodzka Pdf

In Animals and Their People, editors Anna Barcz and Dorota Łagodzka present a collection of texts providing a zoocentric insight into philosophical, artistic, and literary issues in Anglo-American and Central-Eastern European thought.