Reviews for Putting choice before democracy

The average rating for Putting choice before democracy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-01-24 00:00:00 Matthew Harding The book is for specialists in the field and not easily accessible to most readers. I knew that when I bought it but I was hoping to find maybe a few essays that would have practical application.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-02 00:00:00 Mark Parkyn According to Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics: …[T]he branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value… By this standard, Essays on Aristotle's Ethics is not a book with much practical value. It is largely academic hairsplitting about what Aristotle said, what that might have meant, how it relates to his other works, and how to discover and interpret the harmonies and inconsistencies within it. Plenty of interesting stuff there if you're an Aristotle geek, but if the reason you became an Aristotle geek was to learn "how we are to become good men," you will not find much assistance here.