John Antonio Pascarella

Economics and the Public Good

The End of Desire in Aristotle's Politics and Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is the nature of economics? How does economics relate to politics? Readers searching for the Ancient Greeks' answers to these questions often turn to Aristotle, focusing on small portions of the Politics and Nicomachean Ethics that relate to money-making, exchange, and household management. While this approach yields some understanding of economics and politics, it fails to account for how Aristotle's theoretical inquiry into these practical matters reflects the character of his political philosophy. According to Aristotle, the Ethics and Politics together form "the philosophy concerning the human things." All human things begin with choice, an intellectual desire and need for the good. Aristotle's care for this desire is the heart of his political philosophy. Through a close, literal, and careful reading of Aristotle's political philosophy, readers discover the natural boundaries to economic and political life. Simultaneously theoretical and practical, Aristotle's political philosophy offers readers a perspective of economics and politics that provides them the experience of the knowledge they need to desire and live within the limit of the good.

Produktdetails

• Economy, Polity, and Society
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9781538166321
• ISBN-10: 1538166321
• Artikelnr.: 68535774

Autorenporträt

John Antonio Pascarella is the Postdoctoral Fellow in International Politics at Saint Vincent College. He earned his B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Mercer University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science - specializing in the History of Political Philosophy and International Relations - from the University of North Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Problem of the Money-Making Art in Aristotle's Politics
Chapter 2: Liberating Household Management and Political Life from
Money-making
Chapter 3: Choice and the Intellectual Foundations of Politics and
Economics
Chapter 4: Choice and the Limits of Self-sufficiency as a Political and
Economic End
Chapter 5: Political Philosophy, Pleasure, and the Good Things
Chapter 6: Friendship and the Natural Foundations of Politics and Economics
Chapter 7: Justice, Pleasure, and the Good
Chapter 8: Justice, Economic Exchange, and Friendship
Chapter 9: Economics' Need for Political Philosophy
Conclusion