While A Democracy of Distinction offers a substantial contribution to scholarship on Aristotle's political thought, Frank's final chapter, "The Polity of Friendship," leaves the reader wanting more. Arrival at this final chapter, however, leaves one hoping for reflection on the bigger picture of how this contribution to Aristotle scholarship fits into contemporary political philosophy as a whole.
This Article argues that constitutional law scholars pay too much attention to political outcomes and too little to political philosophy. The Article posits that identifying the U.S. Supreme Court's role in the American constitutional order-the question scholars have been trying to answer for generations-is an exegesis in the history of ideas, rather than a lawyer's brief about policy results. Although the Article is ultimately about a number of the most significant political philosophers of all time (e.g., Aristotle, Montesquieu), it examines the dominant constitutional theory of the present day-popular constitutionalism-to illustrate why scholars need to spend less time reacting to recent high Court decisions and more time studying the ancient, medieval, and modern political philosoph...
... different from the natural philosophy practiced by the likes of Aristotle or Avicenna. A... by the sixteenth century, humanism, the political correctness of its day, meant that it was respecta...
...Greek political philosophy of Plato and Aristotle focused on the p...
... which justifies the correlation between political ideas an education and the congressional discussio... useful to go back to classical Greek philosophy, the principal source of Western thinking to under...For Aristotle, Politics was a practical science belonging to Phi...
... war is often traced to the political philosophy that flows from Hobbes. The idea that claims the a... spoil of war, traceable as far back as Aristotle, (74) hints at this long-acknowledged affinity bet...
Natural make-up and character determine the capacity of a people or nation to receive a religion. Since a ruler has a responsibility for moral virtue that is not limited by city or even by nation, and since virtue is inseparable from religion, an obligation for jihad in the sense of offensive war has to be weighed against the capacity of a people to receive a religion.
ARISTOTLE, AL-FARABI, Machiavelli, and Strauss: the charge a..., for al-Farabi, are the object of philosophy; images are the object of religion. While essence ...
... of today's symposium is not only a hot political topic, but truly one of the critical issues of jud... jurisprudence, political science and philosophy, and other areas of study as well. . The issue, co...
According to the FBI director Robert Mueller, the decision "is detrimental to the cause of justice." Nowadays a judge must follow procedural rules of equity. [...] epieikeia is ensnared in Derrida's "first aporia," namely, our "freedom" to judge "must follow ... a prescription, a rule" (23).
... "an alibi for staying out of juridico-political battles" (28). Deconstruction is not "a neutraliza...I will also suggest that we may apply Aristotle's distinction between justice (dike) and equity (e...
...Aristotle, whose oikonomike is the source of our "economics,..." and supplied the materials for the philosophy of individual rights and limited government pionee...
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