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Article: ARISTOTLE'S CRITICISM OF PLATO'S REPUBLIC.(Review) (book review)
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- The Philosophical Review
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- July 1, 2000
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ARISTOTLE'S CRITICISM OF PLATO'S REPUBLIC. By ROBERT MAYHEW. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. Pp. xii, 162.
Robert Mayhew's Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic focuses on Aristotle's main objections to Plato's political philosophy: the degree of unity envisioned by Plato is impossible/undesirable; too much unity undermines self-sufficiency; community of women and children and community of property have numerous adverse effects on society. Mayhew claims that the objections have been largely ignored on the ground that they are facile or unfair. But the purpose of the book is not to show that Aristotle's thought has been unjustifiably vilified, ...
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