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Published in: Society 5/2019

04-10-2019 | Book Review

Delba Winthrop: Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2019. 254 pp. $65.00. ISBN: 978-0226553542

Author: Will Morrisey

Published in: Society | Issue 5/2019

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“That democracy is the best, not to mention the only legitimate, form of government is undoubtedly the most vigorously asserted and least examined political opinion of our day.” So late Delba Winthrop wrote in 1974 in a manuscript published this year, more than a decade after her untimely death. She was right then, and she is right now, at least in the West, although the regimes of today’s China and Russia no longer trouble to call themselves democracies. A philosopher will interrogate holders of unexamined opinions, having judged the unexamined life not worth living. In so doing, Winthrop consults that eminent questioner of regime partisans, Aristotle. …
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Title
Delba Winthrop: Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2019. 254 pp. $65.00. ISBN: 978-0226553542
Author
Will Morrisey
Publication date
04-10-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 5/2019
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-019-00408-y

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