02849nam 2200601Ia 450 991081932190332120230617042226.00-7914-8286-31-4237-4777-1(CKB)1000000000459171(OCoLC)63148245(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579042(SSID)ssj0000096911(PQKBManifestationID)11126388(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096911(PQKBWorkID)10113623(PQKB)10063701(MiAaPQ)EBC3407619(MdBmJHUP)muse6318(Au-PeEL)EBL3407619(CaPaEBR)ebr10579042(DE-B1597)682831(DE-B1597)9780791482865(EXLCZ)99100000000045917120041115d2005 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe active life[electronic resource] Miller's metaphysics of democracy /Michael J. McGandyAlbany State University of New York Pressc20051 online resource (252 p.) SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciencesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6537-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-222) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A Metaphysics of Democracy? -- Action -- Symbol -- History -- Democracy -- The Scholar and the Citizen -- Notes -- References -- IndexThe 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.SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.Act (Philosophy)DemocracyPhilosophyAct (Philosophy)DemocracyPhilosophy.191McGandy Michael J1650492MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819321903321The active life3999907UNINA