Mark Blitz is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of numerous books, including Reason and Politics.
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Introduction Part One. Virtue 1. Happiness, The Good, and the Noble 2. The Virtues: Their Characteristics and Substance 3. Justice and Prudence Part Two. Politics 4. The City and Its Necessities 5. The Regime 6. Regimes: Stability and Change 7. Political Excellence and Its Limits Part Three. Speech 8. Friendship and the Soul 9. The Rhetoric 10. Intellectual Virtue
"Blitz has a gift for explaining Aristotle's thought in a down-to-earth, lucid, and balanced manner that renders that thought helpfully accessible to the contemporary reader." - Peter Ahrensdorf, author of Homer and the Traditional Political Philosophy "Blitz elucidates the fundamental ethical and political phenomena treated by Aristotle with a directness and conceptual clarity unmatched by anyone writing today, at the same time demonstrating the enduring relevance of Aristotle's understanding to our modern liberal democratic regime." - Christopher Lynch, author of Machiavelli on War "With a remarkably sure hand, Mark Blitz guides the reader through the texts, weaving together summary and quotation with clear and penetrating analysis." - Robert Bartlett, translator of Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric