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Rediscovering political friendship : Aristotle's theory and modern identity, community, and equality
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- Creator
- Paul W. Ludwig
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 347 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9781107022966, 1139149369, 9781139149365
- OCLC
- on1122692555
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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