America, Aristotle, and the politics of a middle class /
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Waco, Texas :
Baylor University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Politics and the Political Animal; Part I: Aristotle's Republic; Chapter 1. A Practical Republic: Aristotle's Real-World Politics; Chapter 2. Citizens, Rulers, and the Law: Aristotle on Political Authority; Chapter 3. The Best Regime: Aristotle's Middle-Class Republic; Part II: The American Founders' Republic; Chapter 4. ""Happy Mediocrity"": America's Middle Class; Chapter 5. Citizen Virtue: ""Simple Manners"" among the ""Laborious and Saving.
- Chapter 6. Securing America's Future: Moral Education in a Middle-Class RepublicConclusion: For Aristotle and America, Why the Middle Class Matters; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; General Index.