This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtz's essays on the question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live in a social and natural world.

Examines Aristotle's approaches to how to develop a political community based on the notions of justice and friendship.

This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.

Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, bu

An accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state. Mogens Herman Hansen addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis,