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3Aristotle's Politics: Living Well and Living Together, by Garver, Eugene: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, pp. xi+ 300, US $40.00 (hardback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1-3. 2013.
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16Is the Common Good of Political Society Limited and Instrumental?Review of Metaphysics 55 (1). 2001.Through a careful discussion of the relevant texts in De Regno and the Summa Theologiae, the author argues that Aquinas understands the political common good to include the full virtue and complete happiness of all of the citizens, as related to one another by bonds of justice and civic friendship. It is not something limited and instrument, as John Finnis has recently argued. Yet that the common good has this character for Aquinas does not imply that he regards political authority as in princip…Read more
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5Nicomachean Ethics: Books Viii and Ix (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1998.In Books VIII and IX of his masterpiece of moral philosophy, the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives perhaps the most famous of all philosophical discussions of friendship. Michael Pakaluk presents the first systematic study in English of these books, showing how important Aristotle's treatment of friendship is to his ethics as a whole. Pakaluk's fresh and scrupulously accurate translation is accompanied by a detailed philosophical commentary which reveals the remarkably coherent structure of th…Read more
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13Moral psychology and human action in Aristotle (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.This volume aims to bring the two streams of research together, offering a fresh infusion of Aristotelian insights into moral psychology and philosophy of ...
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