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Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy By Thomas W. Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 325p. $75.50 cloth, $25.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Jacob Howland
Jacob Howland
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Like Socrates, Thomas Smith's Aristotle practices philosophy as a way of life. The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's protreptic and therapeutic introduction to this way of life. It is not a didactic treatise but a teaching that aims at the improvement of its readers' souls. It therefore begins from reputable opinions (endoxa) and employs dialectical arguments—not the best arguments simply, but the best available for improving the lives of Aristotle's audience.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 624
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© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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