Paul Schollmeier's Books

Other Selves

Aristotle on Personal and Political Friendship

By: Paul Schollmeier

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Other Selves

Aristotle on Personal and Political Friendship

By: Paul Schollmeier

This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics. The author conveys a clear sense of the continuing illumination that Aristotle's analysis of friendship provides to contemporary ethical theorists and to students of Aristotle. Other Selves speaks to both audiences.

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SUNY Press

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0791416836

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9780791416839

Human Goodness

Pragmatic Variations on Platonic Themes

By: Paul Schollmeier

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Human Goodness

Pragmatic Variations on Platonic Themes

By: Paul Schollmeier

Human Goodness presents an original, pragmatic moral theory that successfully revives and revitalizes the classical Greek concept of happiness. It also includes in-depth discussions of our freedoms, our obligations, and our virtues, as well as adroit comparisons with the moral theories of Kant and Hume. Paul Schollmeier explains that the Greeks define happiness as an activity that we may perform for its own sake. Obvious examples might include telling stories, making music, or dancing. He then demonstrates that we may use the pragmatic method to discover and to define innumerable activities of this kind. Schollmeier's demonstration rests on the modest assumption that our happiness takes not one ideal form, but many empirical forms.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139458884

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9781139458887

Rewriting Contemporary Political Philosophy with Plato and Aristotle

An Essay on Eudaimonic Politics

By: Paul Schollmeier

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Rewriting Contemporary Political Philosophy with Plato and Aristotle

An Essay on Eudaimonic Politics

By: Paul Schollmeier

Many contemporary philosophers develop political theories in an attempt to justify the societies that we currently live in. But the distribution of wealth in our societies today is becoming ever more polarized. Can these philosophers offer theories that are truly just? Paul Schollmeier takes us back to ancient political philosophy in order to present an original theory of what a society in our era ought to be, and to highlight the flaws in the liberal and libertarian political theories set forth by Robert Nozick and John Rawls. Adapting the ancient principle of happiness found in Plato and Aristotle, he introduces the concept of a eudaimonic polity, which promotes engagement in political activity primarily for its own sake and not for private profit or pleasure. Schollmeier argues that we can best exercise our rational and political nature when we participate together with others in political activity without an ulterior motive. Lucid in argumentation and original in approach, this book presents a strong case for a eudaimonic polity that firmly favors public interest over private interest.

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227

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350066192

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9781350066199

Yearbook of Private International Law

By: Paul Volken,Andrea Bonomi

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Yearbook of Private International Law

By: Paul Volken,Andrea Bonomi

This is a very special volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law as it represents the celebration of the 10th anniversary of its first publication! And it will continue to provide you with interesting information on the future development of private international law. - The new Lugano Convention on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments of 30 October 2007 - Commercial agents under European jurisdiction rules - Grunkin-Paul and beyond - a seminal case in the field of international family law - The new Rome I/Rome II/Brussels I-synergy - Rome I and contracts on intellectual property - Rome I and distribution contracts - Rome I and franchise contracts - Rome I and financial market contracts - Special section on maintenance obligations

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sellier. european law publ.

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3866538561

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9783866538566

Friendship and Empire

Roman Diplomacy and Imperialism in the Middle Republic (353–146 BC)

By: Paul J. Burton

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Friendship and Empire

Roman Diplomacy and Imperialism in the Middle Republic (353–146 BC)

By: Paul J. Burton

In this bold new interpretation of the origins of ancient Rome's overseas empire, Dr Burton charts the impact of the psychology, language and gestures associated with the Roman concept of amicitia, or 'friendship'. The book challenges the prevailing orthodox Cold War-era realist interpretation of Roman imperialism and argues that language and ideals contributed just as much to Roman empire-building as military muscle. Using a constructivist theoretical framework drawn from international relations, Dr Burton replaces the modern scholarly fiction of a Roman empire built on networks of foreign clients and client-states with an interpretation grounded firmly in the discursive habits of the ancient texts themselves. The results better account for the peculiar rhythms of Rome's earliest period of overseas expansion - brief periods of vigorous military and diplomatic activity, such as the rolling back of Seleucid power in Asia Minor and Greece in 192–188 BC, followed by long periods of inactivity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139501860

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9781139501866

William James and the Art of Popular Statement

By: Paul Stob

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William James and the Art of Popular Statement

By: Paul Stob

At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist William James. Sought after around the country, James developed his ideas in lecture halls and via essays and books intended for general audiences. Reaching out to and connecting with these audiences was crucial to James—so crucial that in 1903 he identified “popular statement,” or speaking and writing in a way that animated the thought of popular audiences, as the “highest form of art.” Paul Stob’s thought-provoking history traces James’s art of popular statement through pivotal lectures, essays, and books, including his 1878 lectures in Baltimore and Boston, “Talks to Teachers on Psychology,” “The Varieties of Religious Experience,” and “Pragmatism.” The book explores James’s unique approach to public address, which involved crafting lectures in science, religion, and philosophy around ordinary people and their experiences. With democratic bravado, James confronted those who had accumulated power through various systems of academic and professional authority, and argued that intellectual power should be returned to the people. Stob argues that James gave those he addressed a central role in the pursuit of knowledge and fostered in them a new intellectual curiosity unlike few scholars before or since.

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