Marx and Aristotle

George E. McCarthy, Associate Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College, is the author of Marx and the Ancients: Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-Century Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1990).

• Visions and vertigo - viewing modernity from the Acropolis, George E. McCarthy. Part 1 Hegel and the Greeks - remembrance of things past: Karl Marx and the influence of Greek antiquity on 18th century Germany, Horst Mews; the Polis transformed - Aristotle's "Politics" and Marx's critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of right", David Depew; the origins of the dialectic - Hegel's approriation of ancient skeptics, Stephen Smith. Part 2 Marx and Epicurus - materialism, ethics, and Greek physics: the Greek accent of the Marxian matrix, Michael DeGolyer; Marx and Epicurus - post-Aristotelian philosophy of nature and Marx's dissertation, George E. McCarthy; Karl Marx and Greek philosophy - some explorations in the themes of intellectual accommodations and moral hypocrisy, Laurence Baronovitch. Part 3 Marx and Aristotle - human capabilities and social structures: nature, function, and capability - Aristotle on political distribution, Martha Nussbaum; Aristotle, Kant and the ethics of the young Marx, Philip Kain; households, markets and firms, William James Booth. Part 4 Marx and Aristotle - morality and Praxis: Marx and Aristotle - a kind of consequentialism, Richard Miller; Marx's moral realism - Eudaimonism and moral progress, Alan Gilbert; Praxis and morality - Marx's "Species being" and Aristotle's "political animal", Joseph Margolis; Marxian subjectivity, idealism and Greek philosophy, Thomas Rockmore.