ABSTRACT
As independent thinkers, neo-Aristotelians differ from one another in so many aspects that it seems arbitrary to link them to one another on the seemingly exclusive and superficial ground that they commonly seek illumination for our own problems in the work of Aristotle. Philosophy remained for them a matter of primary political or moral relevance. A deep affinity can be detected between leftist antiliberalism and political neo-Aristotelianism on the one hand, and conservative anti-liberalism and ethical neo-Aristotelianism on the other. Castoriadis makes many illuminating statements about Greek philosophy and particularly about Aristotle. Castoriadis discusses history as autopoiesis, constant self creation. Interestingly, Castoriadis fights against liberal limitations of imagination on the grounds that autonomy goes with self-limitation alone. There is indeed something of an ancient Greek in Castoriadis, something robust, deep, magnificent, and stubborn; something plastic, in the Hegelian sense.
