1. Franco Volpi, “The Rehabilitation of Practical Philosophy and Neo-Aristotelianism,” in Action and Contemplation, ed. Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999), 18. The article of Volpi was translated from the French version, which appeared in Aristote politique: é tudes sur la Politique d’Aristote, ed. Pierre Aubenque (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1993). The volume in which the translation appeared took as its first task, according to its editors, to confront “directly … the most fundamental and controversial question of concern to students of Aristotle today, namely the possibility of grounding moral and political action in some version of Aristotelian rationalism” (xi).