The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics

Marguerite Deslauriers is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Montréal. She is the author of Aristotle on Definition (2007). Pierre Destrée is Associate Researcher at the Belgian FRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique) and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louvain. He has edited several books, including Akrasia in Greek Philosophy (co-edited with Christopher Bobonich, 2007) and Plato and the Poets (co-edited with F.-G. Herrmann, 2011).

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• Introduction Marguerite Deslauriers and Pierre Destrée; 1. The political character of Aristotle's ethics Dorothea Frede; 2. The rule of reason Fred D. Miller, Jr; 3. Economy and private property Karen Margrethe Nielsen; 4. Natural slavery Pierre Pellegrin (translated by E. Zoli Filotas); 5. Political unity and inequality Marguerite Deslauriers; 6. Civic virtue: citizenship, ostracism, and war Andrés Rosler; 7. The common good Donald Morrison; 8. Natural, ethical, and political justice Marco Zingano; 9. Law, governance, and political obligation Christoph Horn; 10. Claims to rule: the case of the multitude Melissa Lane; 11. Faction Antony Hatzistavrou; 12. Education, leisure and politics Pierre Destrée; 13. Deliberating and acting together Bryan Garsten; 14. Aristotle and Rawls on the common good Richard Kraut; Further reading Thornton Lockwood.