Finding the Mean

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction31Aristotle's Teleology and the Tradition of Evaluative Explanation132Theorizing the Human Good573How Theory Informs Practice: Virtues and Rules in Aristotelian Practical Philosophy1054Gendered Virtue: Plato and Aristotle on the Politics of Virility1655Reconceiving Liberal Democracy, Part I: Democracy as a Range of Possibilities2056Reconceiving Liberal Democracy, Part II: Liberal Virtues and the Public Life237References265Index283

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