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Contents 1 Connecting Free People: A Neo-Aristotelian Proposal 1 - Coming Together or Coming Apart? - Inspiration from Aristotle - The Liberal/Communitarian Debate - Applications to Modern Civil Society - Negotiating the Good Life 2 Revisiting Aristotle: In Pursuit of Happiness 15 - The Question: What is the Good Life? - Key Elements of Happiness - Judging Happiness: Which Lives are Best? - The Importance of Practical Reason - Problems and Objections 3 Constructing the Good Life: Narrative as a Path to Eudaimonia 47 - The Problem of Aristotle's Metaphysics - An Alternative: Constructed Character - The Normativity of Narrative: Which Stories are Right? 4 Aristotle's Polis: the Soil of Eudaimonia 73 - Man as a Political Animal - Friendship, Justice and the Common Good - Problems and Objections 5 The Freedom of Community: Can Virtue be Pluralistic? 103 - The Liberal/Communitarian Debate - A Neo-Aristotelian Way Forward 6 Civil Society: Modern Aristotelian Polis? 139 - Four Historical Models - A Modern Proposal - Three Possible Examples - Conclusions - And One Further Concern 7 Negotiating the Good Life: Conflict Management in a Pluralistic Democracy 172 - Phronesis Revisited - Exploding the "Fixed Pie" - A Practical Application: the Boston Ten Point Coalition 8 Modern Communities: A Rejoinder to Putnam 206 - The Standard of Responsibility - New Kinds of Community - Limits and Perspectives Bibliography 214
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Aristotle -- Views on liberty.
Liberty.
Community.
Civil society.