Finding the Mean (ebook)

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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991

"Insightful and carefully argued.... Regarding modern politics, Salkever makes a compelling case for moral education, mutual understanding, and the avoidance of doctrinal extremes."--Fred D. Miller, Jr., The Times Literary Supplement

"Stephen Salkever's [book] does more than explain Aristotle's understanding of the relation between theory and practice. It advocates a new style of theorizing--as old as Aristotle, but new to liberal democracy's defenders and critics. Salkever not only sheds light on Aristotle's political theory, but also presents a reconception of liberal democracy that reveals its merits, and allows us to evaluate policies and institutions in light of its best potentialities.... His work deserves to receive the attention bestowed on Rawls and Arendt or MacIntyre."--Mary P. Nichols, The Review of Politics

"Absolutely essential for any serious student of Aristotle's moral and political philosophy."--Anthony J. Celano, Canadian Philosophical Reviews0Acknowledgments 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