Reviews for On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State

The average rating for On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-07 00:00:00 Paolo Jean A really comprehensive introduction to the major theories. My chief criticism is the personality that emerges. The author's instance on the use of qua gets tedious. - reference book qua pretentiousness. The opinions on theory are just that - it is legitimate to critique theory but again the style in which this is done grates.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-02 00:00:00 James Newsom against all odds, i am extremely fond of this book. modal realism doesn't really do any of the work that i care most about doing, or resolve any of the questions that i care most about resolving, but i'll give this to david lewis, he seems to have done a great job of resolving the questions that HE cares most about, and with a combination of systematicity and whimsy unsurpassed in contemporary philosophy. if your intuitions about modality, like mine, are deflationary, david lewis isn't going to change your mind. he can't justify our pre-philosophical intuition that things could have been different than they are, and he is explicit in his belief that it's not the proper role of philosophy to so justify. he's not out to justify modality, he's out to systematize it, work out a proper semantics for it, and he does an impressive job. bertrand russell famously said that "the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it", and that's what lewis does-- fully spin out all of the zany implications of our modal talk, which is interesting no matter what your personal intuitions are. it's just good philosophy.