Negotiating The Good Life: Aristotle And The Civil Society - Couverture rigide

Young, Mark A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754651355 ISBN 13 : 9780754651352

Editeur : Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

For centuries philosophers have wrestled with the dichotomy between individual freedom on the one hand and collective solidarity on the other. Yet today there is a growing realization that this template is fundamentally flawed. In this book, Mark Young embraces and advocates a more holistic concept of freedom; one which is not merely defined negatively but which positively provides the preconditions for individuals to actively exercise their autonomy and to flourish as human beings in the process. Young posits the idea of "freedom in community" and traces its origin back to Aristotle. Taking as his premise that humans are deeply social beings who live our lives intricately interwoven with each other, Young examines what type of political community is relevant for us in this post-Classical, post-enlightenment and, indeed, post-existential world. Identifying the failure of traditional 'statist' models of politics, Young instead argues for civil society: a globally interlinked and free set of liberal communities as the best context for nourishing human flourishing. In this way we can achieve a proper setting for eudaimonia in a modern sense.

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Mark A. Young,

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754651355
• ISBN 13: 9780754651352
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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