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Rediscovering Political Friendship : Aristotle's Theory and Modern Identity, Community, and Equality
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Especially for Theorists -- We All Have a Stake in Theoretical Debates -- People -- Introduction -- The Persistence of Civic Friendship -- Why Study Civic Friendship? --...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
: Cambridge University Press
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5995955 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Especially for Theorists -- We All Have a Stake in Theoretical Debates -- People -- Introduction -- The Persistence of Civic Friendship -- Why Study Civic Friendship? -- What Civic Friendship Meant to Aristotle -- Utility -- How People Actually Think -- A Real-World Good -- What Civic Friendship Means for Us -- How Did We Lose the Theory? -- How Would a New Theory Help? -- Would Specific Policies Follow? -- Part I Foundations of Friendship -- 1 Friendship from Identity: Recognizing Anger in the Politics of Recognition -- 1.1 How Identity Theory Came to Seem Accurate (as Well as Healthy) -- 1.2 Is Identity Only a Negating of the Other? -- The Mystery of Personal Identity: Plato's Lysis -- Utility vs. Personal Identity -- Group Identities - Less Mysterious? -- The Negative Approach Clears the Ground -- 1.3 Identity Is Angry: From the Lysis to the Republic and Beyond -- Anger and the Self: The Psychology of the Republic -- 1.4 Anger and Friendship: Aristotle's Politics 7 -- Aristotle's Claim -- Criticizing Republic 2 -- The Anger Is Only Political? -- Explaining Away the Anger -- Other Works of Aristotle Corroborate the Angry Connection -- A Case for ''Irascible'' Friendship -- Conclusion -- 1.5 A Preliminary Result for Identity Politics -- 1.6 Charles Taylor: Where Is the Anger? -- 1.7 Can Liberalism Accommodate the Politics of Recognition? -- Conclusion -- 1.8 What Complicates Liberal Solutions to the Problem of Identity -- 1.9 Conclusion -- 2 Friendships from Utility and Activity: Toward a More Realistic Social Policy (and More Idealistic Civil Society) -- 2.1 Functional Friends -- 2.2 Goodwill: Agents and Spectators -- 2.3 Active Loving, or What Do Friends Do? -- Meeting the Challenge of the Delian Inscription. Noble Users and Market Hucksters -- 2.4 ''Whoever Practices Doing Good Comes to Love the One He Has Benefited'' -- 2.5 Self-Love and Other-Love -- 2.6 Disappointed Benefactors: The Persistence of Identity -- 2.7 Which Self Should We Love: Character or Intellect? -- 2.8 Ethical and Philosophical Friendships -- Activity and the Higher Utility -- Activity as Pleasure -- Pleasure in Civic Activity? -- Realism about Activity -- 2.9 Conclusion: What Policymakers and Civil Society-Builders Should Know -- Social Policy -- Civil Society -- Modern Realism and Idealism Conspire Against Good Policy and Civil Society -- Part II Where Is Civic Friendship Today? -- 3 Why Associations Replaced Civic Friendship: Altruism Conspires with Self-Interest to Produce the ''Free Rider'' -- 3.1 Questioning Classical Liberalism: Montesquieu -- Montesquieu's Ancient Republics - A Mischaracterization? -- The Christian Provenance of Montesquieu's Virtue -- Montesquieu's Transition to Modern Politics -- 3.2 Preliminary Results for Today's Liberalism -- 3.3 Rethinking the Dominant Model: ''Collective Action'' -- An Economic Model for Politics? -- 3.4 Going Back Behind Collective Action: ''Self-Interest Rightly Understood'' -- 3.5 Where Should Political Theory Go from Here? -- 4 Why Associations Are Really Civic Friendships: Finding the Balance between Associations and the State -- 4.1 Involuntary Association: Michael Walzer -- 4.2 ''Associations'' in Aristotle -- Plural Civic Friendships in Smaller Bodies -- 4.3 Beyond the Love of One's Own? -- From Ancient to Modern -- 4.4 Policy toward Groups -- 4.5 Rethinking Associations as Civic Friendships -- Modern Not Ancient -- Liberal Civic Friendships -- 4.6 More Policy: Associations and Congress -- Groups and Congressional Reform -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Part III A Different Way to View Liberalism. 5 From Communitarianism to Civic Friendship: Broadening Out beyond Associations -- 5.1 Community and Its Frightening Epistemology -- 5.2 Robert Bellah and the Narrative Self -- 5.3 Michael Sandel and the Constituted Self -- How Does Friendship Rescue Reflection? -- 5.4 Backing Out of the Impasse: Recovering Liberal Epistemology -- Recovering the Natural Basis of Choice -- Finding John Locke beneath Today's Liberalism -- Locke's Property as a Watershed -- Still Evident Today -- The Irascible Passions in Property -- 5.5 Realism about Civic Friendship: Money and Honor -- From Money to Esteem -- From Esteem to Love -- 6 Commercial Society and Civic Friendship: Property and Liberty Are Preconditions of Friendship -- 6.1 Rival Views of Utility: Ancient and Modern Economies -- What Is Commercial Friendship? -- What about in Modern Exchanges? -- 6.2 Recovering Forgotten Elements of Classical Liberalism -- The Inadequacy of Our Theories -- 6.3 Is Civic Friendship Legal? -- Law and Economics -- Enforcing Virtue? -- Legal Stand-Ins for Virtue? -- 6.4 Middle-Class Morality and Civic Friendship -- Middle-Class Morality: Not Fully Ethical -- An Indictment of Liberal Neglect? -- Using Structure While Resisting Its Corrosive Effects -- Differences between Aristotle's Middle Class and the Modern Middle Class -- 6.5 Making Virtue Attractive -- How Civic Friendship Can Replace Virtue-Politics -- How Civic Friendship Collaborated with Virtue in Ancient Society -- How Civic Friendship Collaborates with a Modern Virtue -- 7 Mass Society and Civic Friendship: The Basic Agreement That Citizens Cherish -- 7.1 Concord as Civic Friendship -- What Is Political Concord? -- How Is a Regime Like a Soul? -- 7.2 Patriotism? -- Patriotism and Rationality -- Concord and the Divided Self -- 7.3 Implications for Liberal Civic Friendship -- Liberal Patriotism -- Psychology and the Regime. Psychology of the Liberal Regime -- Conclusion -- 7.4 Many Friends: How Large Can the Polity Be? -- What Type of Friends Can We Have Many of? -- Nations: Indefensible and Non-Civic -- Citizen Knowledge? -- 7.5 Small Numbers and the Modern State -- New Directions -- 7.6 Can Mass Friendship Be Passionate? -- Friendliness -- A Place for Duty? -- Part IV Conclusion -- 8 What Is the Use of Civic Friendship?: Sheltering Liberal Practices from the Effects of Liberal Theory -- Outline placeholder -- Public Policy -- 8.1 Society-Wide vs. Associational Friendship: Differing Uses of Each -- 8.2 Society-Wide Uses: The Esteem-Factor in Earnings -- 8.3 Just Wage -- Dignity at Work -- CEOs' Pay -- Beyond the Comparison with Workers: Expansive Self-Interest -- 8.4 Uses of Associational Friendship: The Civic Patron -- The Civic Friend as Patron -- The Importance of the Group -- How Patrons Differ from Philanthropists -- 8.5 Immigration -- Deriving Social Capital from Ethnocentricity -- Toward the Synergies between Mass and Associational Friendships -- 8.6 Shared Psychology of Patronage and Commerce -- Money and Sociality -- Putting Formal Models in Their Place -- Our Regnant Ideologies Discourage Civic Patrons -- Toward Better Intermediary Bodies -- 8.7 National Service -- 8.8 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index. Applies Aristotle's argument - that citizenship is like friendship - to the liberal and democratic societies of the present day |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (366 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108850964 |
