I want to come back to an earlier post on Stuart Elden paper 'There must be some Architectonic: Heidegger and Aristotle on the Politics of Phronesis' (listed under works in progress)that I was exploring before Xmas.

I wrote here that

"Though Heidegger recovered a practical reason in Aristotle's texts he foregrounds the ontological dimension, downplays the ethical, and forgets about the link between the ethical and the political. The ethical is buried. It-- the practical concern to live well-- is what needs to be recovered."

The ethical as the concern to live well is not understood as a set of moral rules or as a moral system; it is a certain kind of life, a philosophical art of living, as the practices of transforming the lives of individuals.

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