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Collins, Susan D. Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship.(Book review)
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The Review of Metaphysics
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March 1, 2008
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COLLINS, Susan D. Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 193 pp. Cloth, $70.00--The book owes its title to the author's conviction that within the contemporary Western world we have lost sight of the principles that support the social and political order we take for granted, the foundational principles necessary to secure our individual liberty. Collins argues that Aristotelian moral and political theory was eclipsed by the success of modern liberalism and the resulting attachment to Hobbes, among others. Aristotle's view that man is a social and political agent who freely elects his mode of governance is contrasted to the ...
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