The active life : Miller's metaphysics of democracy / Michael J. McGandy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGandy, Michael J.

Series:

SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.

SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Act (Philosophy).

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Miller, John William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this innovative and wide-ranging examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy—its scope, its systematic character, and its dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy persuasively sets Miller's actualism in the context of Hannah Arendt's understanding of the active life and skillfully presents actualism as a response to Whitman's challenge to craft a democratic form of metaphysics. McGandy concludes that Miller reveals how the philosophical and the political are inextricably connected, how there is no active life without the contemplative life, and that the contemplative life is founded in the active life.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

A Metaphysics of Democracy?

Action

Symbol

History

Democracy

The Scholar and the Citizen

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-222) and index.

ISBN:

9780791482865

0791482863

9781423747772

1423747771

OCLC:

63148245