The problems of a political animal Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Political Community as a Term of Distinction	6
	Distorted Images of Aristotelian Politics	10
	Interpretive Approaches	18
1	Community	25
	The Communal Animal	27
	The Forms of Friendship and Justice	33
	Aristotelian Community and Modern Social Theory	43
2	Political Community	51
	The Defining Characteristics of Political Community	53
	The Political Animal	62
	The Ancient Polis and Modern Political Communities	71
	Appendix. Monarchy add Political Community	85
3	Political Teleology	88
	The Naturalness of the Polis	90
	Politics and the Good Life	96
	An Anthropocentric Universe?	100
	The Good Life in Imperfect Political Communities	102
4	Political Friendship	109
	Neither Brothers nor Comrades	110
	The Dangers of Political Intimacy	118
	Political Friendship and the Inconveniences of Political Life	122
5	Political Justice	128
	Political Justice and Reciprocity	133
	Natural and Conventional Right	140
	The Subject of Justice	149
	General and Distributive Justice	157
	A Political Conception of the Common Good	166
6	The Rule of Law	175
	What Is Law?	178
	Adjudication	184
	A Political Conception of the Rule of Law	194
7	Class Conflict and the Mixed Regime	209
	Class Conflict in Ancient Greece	210
	A Political Understanding of Class Conflict	215
	Perceived Injustice and Class Interests	218
	Political Friends, Class Enemies	224
	The Mixed Regime and Political Justice	231
	Appendix. "Political Revolution": A Missing Aristotelian Category	239
8	The Good Life in Political Context	242
	Moral Character in Political Context	243
	Misfortune and the Asymmetry Between Praise and Blame	251
	Moral Conflict in Political Context	259
9	The Good Life in Extrapolitical Context	268
	How Good Is the Aristotelian Good Life?	269
	The Tensions Within a Good Human Life	277
	Conclusion	281
	Bibliography	285
	Index of Citations from Aristotle's Works	301
	General Index	305