Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy

Emma Cohen de Lara (PhD University of Notre Dame) is research fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and senior lecturer in political theory at Amsterdam University College. Her current research focuses on Aristotle’s political realism. Her publications include: ‘Aristotle’s Rhetoric and the Persistence of the Emotions in the Courtroom’ in: Huppes-Cluysenaer, L. and N. Coelho,  (eds.), Aristotle Law and Emotion (Springer, forthcoming) and ‘The Affective Dimension of Citizenship: A Platonic Account’ in: Thunder, D. (ed.), The Ethics of Citizenship in the 21st Century (Springer, forthcoming). She has also edited a volume on liberal education Back to the Core: Rethinking Core Texts in Liberal Arts and Science Education in Europe (Vernon Press, forthcoming).René Brouwer (PhD Cambridge, MPhil Utrecht, LLM Amsterdam) teaches philosophy and law at the University of Utrecht. He has worked in thephilosophy and history of law as well as in ancient philosophy, with focus on Stoicism, including its origins and reception, and the tradition of natural law. Recent publications include: The Stoic Sage (CUP, 2014), ‘Stoic Sympathy’ in: Schliesser, E. (ed.), Sympathy (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), New York 2015, pp. 15-35, ‘Ulpian’s Appeal to Nature: Roman Law as Universal Law’, Legal History Review 83 (2015), pp. 60-76. His current research is on the interaction between law and philosophy in the late Roman republic as well as on conceptions of justice in antiquity.

• Introduction; Emma Cohen de Lara and René Brouwer.- Chapter 1: Aristotle’s Politics: Ethical Politics or Political Realism?; Emma Cohen de Lara.- Chapter 2: Aristotle’s Politikos: Statesmanship, Magnanimity, and the Rule of the Many; Patrick Overeem.- Chapter 3: Justice in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics; René Brouwer.- Chapter 4: A Distinction with A Difference: Aristotle’s Division of Particular Justice and its Practical Significance; Andrei Poama.- Chapter 5: Is Human Virtue Citizen-Virtue? Reading Aristotle’s Politics 3.4; L. K. Gustin Law.- Chapter 6: Between Friendship and Self-sufficiency. The Possibility of Human Flourishing in the Relationship between Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics: A Multifocal Approach; Arianna Fermani.- Chapter 7: Perfect Friendship in the Political Realm: A Philosophical Trait-d’Union between the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics; Elena Irrera.- Chapter 8: How Political are Virtue and Happiness?; Micah Lott.- Chapter 9: A Political Interpretation of Aristotle’s Ethics; Brian J. Collins.- Authors’ bios.- General index.- Index locorum.