All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the Political

Riesbeck does not claim that his account of the political in Aristotle delivers a demonstrative blow that no one can resist should they happen to have the wit to understand. In fact, Riesbeck's aims look far less unpretentious. For instance, his reading does not quite resolve the ambigui- ties...

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Author: Rosler, Andres Bernardo
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The Politics
Kingship
Political community
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spelling All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the PoliticalRosler, Andres BernardoAristotleThe PoliticsKingshipPolitical communityhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6Riesbeck does not claim that his account of the political in Aristotle delivers a demonstrative blow that no one can resist should they happen to have the wit to understand. In fact, Riesbeck's aims look far less unpretentious. For instance, his reading does not quite resolve the ambigui- ties in main Aristotelian terms like citizen, rule, and constitution, but rather it makes ?their presence less surprising than alternative accounts? (p. 228). According to Riesbeck, then, it would ?be foolish to claim that the view of Aristotle?s political philosophy? defended in this book ?is the only plausible, let alone possible, interpretation?. Riesbeck?s point, instead, is ?the more modest but still quite strong one that the texts, when taken together, are most plausibly read as read by him here (p. 288).In what follows I shall first (II) give an outline of the bountiful structure and content of this quite challenging book, only to focus upon just a couple of the many fascinating issues raised by this book: sharing in political rule (III, IV) and total kingship and the rule of law (V).Fil: Rosler, Andres Bernardo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filosofía "Dr. Alejandro Korn"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaBrill Academic Publishers2018-10info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/162723Rosler, Andres Bernardo; All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the Political; Brill Academic Publishers; Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought; 35; 10-2018; 549-5670142-257XCONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://brill.com/view/journals/agpt/35/2/article-p549_11.xml?language=eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2024-05-08T13:32:59Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/162723instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982024-05-08 13:33:00.078CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
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title All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the Political
spellingShingle All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the Political
Rosler, Andres Bernardo
Aristotle
The Politics
Kingship
Political community
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
title_short All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the Political
title_full All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the Political
title_fullStr All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the Political
title_full_unstemmed All the King's Men (and Citizens): Aristotle's Kingship and the Political
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rosler, Andres Bernardo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Aristotle
The Politics
Kingship
Political community
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
topic Aristotle
The Politics
Kingship
Political community
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
description Riesbeck does not claim that his account of the political in Aristotle delivers a demonstrative blow that no one can resist should they happen to have the wit to understand. In fact, Riesbeck's aims look far less unpretentious. For instance, his reading does not quite resolve the ambigui- ties in main Aristotelian terms like citizen, rule, and constitution, but rather it makes ?their presence less surprising than alternative accounts? (p. 228). According to Riesbeck, then, it would ?be foolish to claim that the view of Aristotle?s political philosophy? defended in this book ?is the only plausible, let alone possible, interpretation?. Riesbeck?s point, instead, is ?the more modest but still quite strong one that the texts, when taken together, are most plausibly read as read by him here (p. 288).In what follows I shall first (II) give an outline of the bountiful structure and content of this quite challenging book, only to focus upon just a couple of the many fascinating issues raised by this book: sharing in political rule (III, IV) and total kingship and the rule of law (V).
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