Abstract

With this book Salkever issues a timely call for political and ethical theory to return to more classical modes of theorizing. His central claim is that Aristotle's approach to social science as presented in the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, an approach which cuts across many modern dichotomies, is workable and in fact provides a more adequate framework for understanding modern political practice than any modern theory. He looks to Aristotle not for the content of his political theory, but for its "style" of theorizing. The book does not pretend to explicate fully Aristotle's political philosophy, but rather to encourage discussion of it ; it offers no theory of modern politics, but simply urges us to theorize in the style of Aristotle.