Aristotle And The Ethics Of Difference, Friendship, And Equality: The Plurality Of Rule

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Connecting several strands of Aristotle's thought, Zoli Filotas sheds light on one of the axioms of Aristotle's ethics and political philosophy – that every community has a ruler – and demonstrates its relevance to his ideas on personal relationships. Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality reveals a pluralistic theory of rule in Aristotle's thought, tracing it through his corpus and situating it in a discussion among such figures as Gorgias, Xenophon, and Plato. Considering the similarities and differences among various forms of rule, Filotas shows that for Aristotle even virtuous friends must exercise a version of rule akin to that of slaveholders. He also explores why Aristotle distinguishes the hierarchical rule over women from both the mastery of slaves and the political rule exercised by free and equal citizens. In doing so, he argues that natural and social differences among human beings play a complex, and troubling, role in Aristotle's reasoning. Illuminating and thought-provoking, this book reveals Aristotle's ambivalence about political relations and the equal treatment they involve and offers an engaging inquiry into how he understood the common structures of human relationships.


  • | Author: Zoli Filotas
  • | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • | Publication Date: 9-Sep-21
  • | Number of Pages: 216 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 1350160865
  • | ISBN-13: 9781350160866
Author:
Zoli Filotas
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:
9-Sep-21
Number of pages:
216 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
1350160865
ISBN-13:
9781350160866