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The Political Struggle for a Well-Ordered City and Soul as a Historical Striving for Peace: Plato and Aristotle on War and Peace

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Abstract

My argument is: Plato and Aristotle have a pacifist vein. Nevertheless, their best cities are both war-like communities and both defend slavery and wars against barbarians in order to acquire slaves. These apparent contradictions are examined. Plato’s and Aristotle’s views on war and peace are considered to be similar. The human soul and its appetites drive history and cause war. Accordingly, a well-ordered soul and city are the premise of curbing man’s political urge to conquer and to go to war. This insight plays a crucial role in Plato’s and Aristotle’s psychology and their constitutional thought.

Abstract

My argument is: Plato and Aristotle have a pacifist vein. Nevertheless, their best cities are both war-like communities and both defend slavery and wars against barbarians in order to acquire slaves. These apparent contradictions are examined. Plato’s and Aristotle’s views on war and peace are considered to be similar. The human soul and its appetites drive history and cause war. Accordingly, a well-ordered soul and city are the premise of curbing man’s political urge to conquer and to go to war. This insight plays a crucial role in Plato’s and Aristotle’s psychology and their constitutional thought.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgments v
  3. Table of Contents vii
  4. List of Abbreviations ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Making History in Washington Irving’s “Rip van Winkle” and James Joyce’s Ulysses 7
  7. The Political Struggle for a Well-Ordered City and Soul as a Historical Striving for Peace: Plato and Aristotle on War and Peace 39
  8. Confronting History: On the Wisdom and Example of Diodotus in Thucydides’ History of The Peloponnesian War 57
  9. History Brought into a Form: Political Storytelling 77
  10. Human History, Its Aims and Its End, according to the Zoroastrian Doctrine of Late Antiquity 97
  11. The Making of a New History Called Mexico 123
  12. The Way of Thinking on “History” in Buddhism 153
  13. A Continuing Strife towards Cosmogony: History 163
  14. Index of Names 177
  15. Index of Subjects 181
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672206-005

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgments v
  3. Table of Contents vii
  4. List of Abbreviations ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Making History in Washington Irving’s “Rip van Winkle” and James Joyce’s Ulysses 7
  7. The Political Struggle for a Well-Ordered City and Soul as a Historical Striving for Peace: Plato and Aristotle on War and Peace 39
  8. Confronting History: On the Wisdom and Example of Diodotus in Thucydides’ History of The Peloponnesian War 57
  9. History Brought into a Form: Political Storytelling 77
  10. Human History, Its Aims and Its End, according to the Zoroastrian Doctrine of Late Antiquity 97
  11. The Making of a New History Called Mexico 123
  12. The Way of Thinking on “History” in Buddhism 153
  13. A Continuing Strife towards Cosmogony: History 163
  14. Index of Names 177
  15. Index of Subjects 181
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