Gabriele De Anna teaches philosophy at the Universities of Udine, Italy, and Bamberg, Germany. He was Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science (Pittsburgh University, USA). He authored six books in Italian, edited eleven volumes (including Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology), and published over seventy articles and chapters on metaphysics, action theory political philosophy.

• Introduction. Metaphysics and PoliticsPart I: Substance1. Direct Realism and Substances2. Degrees of Unity and Substance GradualismPart II: Practical Reason3. Human Action, Reasons, and the Good4. Reasons for Action, Human Nature and Morality5. Practical Reason and the Problem of FitPart III: Authority6. Human Action, the Political Community and the Common Good7. Authority and the Unity of the Political Community

"This book is a scholarly and mature attempt to make analytical Thomism and Aristotelian naturalism relevant for the diagnosis of political communities and their substantial nature as depending on political authority and the common good. This book makes brings metaphysics back into reflections on the common good, which should be of great relevance to students in political philosophy, political theory, social ontology, and the social theory of action." – Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK

Gabriele De Anna teaches philosophy at the Universities of Udine, Italy, and Bamberg, Germany. He was Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science (Pittsburgh University, USA). He authored six books in Italian, edited eleven volumes (including Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology), and published over seventy articles and chapters on metaphysics, action theory political philosophy.

• Introduction. Metaphysics and PoliticsPart I: Substance1. Direct Realism and Substances2. Degrees of Unity and Substance GradualismPart II: Practical Reason3. Human Action, Reasons, and the Good4. Reasons for Action, Human Nature and Morality5. Practical Reason and the Problem of FitPart III: Authority6. Human Action, the Political Community and the Common Good7. Authority and the Unity of the Political Community

"This book is a scholarly and mature attempt to make analytical Thomism and Aristotelian naturalism relevant for the diagnosis of political communities and their substantial nature as depending on political authority and the common good. This book makes brings metaphysics back into reflections on the common good, which should be of great relevance to students in political philosophy, political theory, social ontology, and the social theory of action." – Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK

Gabriele De Anna teaches philosophy at the Universities of Udine, Italy, and Bamberg, Germany. He was Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science (Pittsburgh University, USA). He authored six books in Italian, edited eleven volumes (including Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology), and published over seventy articles and chapters on metaphysics, action theory political philosophy.

• Introduction. Metaphysics and PoliticsPart I: Substance1. Direct Realism and Substances2. Degrees of Unity and Substance GradualismPart II: Practical Reason3. Human Action, Reasons, and the Good4. Reasons for Action, Human Nature and Morality5. Practical Reason and the Problem of FitPart III: Authority6. Human Action, the Political Community and the Common Good7. Authority and the Unity of the Political Community

"This book is a scholarly and mature attempt to make analytical Thomism and Aristotelian naturalism relevant for the diagnosis of political communities and their substantial nature as depending on political authority and the common good. This book makes brings metaphysics back into reflections on the common good, which should be of great relevance to students in political philosophy, political theory, social ontology, and the social theory of action." – Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK