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Article: Burger, Ronna. Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the "Nicomachean Ethics.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 2009
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BURGER, Ronna. Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the "Nicomachean Ethics." Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. viii + 309 pp. Cloth, $35.00--This remarkable and wonderful book on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics exhibits a profound understanding of both the contents and complex intention of that amazing work. This interpretation cannot be ignored by anyone who intends to write on the Ethics in the foreseeable future. The reviewer cannot do justice to Professor Burger's detailed and subtle analysis of almost every chapter of the Ethics in this brief account of her book, but hopefully enough is intimated to lead those who are interested in Aristotle, the ...