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Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenshipand Plato and the Virtue ofCourage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2007

Frederick Vaughan
Frederick Vaughan
Affiliation:
University of Guelph
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Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship. BySusan D. Collins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 206p.$70.00.

Plato and the Virtue of Courage. By Linda R. Rabieh.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 224p. $45.00.

Why do we need books about courage and civic virtue, written byancient philosophers in an idiom so difficult for moderns such asourselves to understand? How could such books be relevant inpost–9/11 days? The whole world saw civic courageright before their eyes in the aftermath of the Twin Towers' attack.The last thing one would think Americans needed today is instructionin what constitutes courage or civic virtue more generally. YetAmericans would be decidedly wrong in thinking so skeptically. Thebooks under review demonstrate why.

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BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 347 - 349
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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