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Aristotle Shrugged

“There are two kinds of mind in the world: the Platonic and the Aristotelian,” goes an academic aphorism. To whatever degree this mental division may have been real, the Aristotelians seem to be practically extinct—the essayists in Educating for Virtue must, essentially, be Platonists. The key to that would be this insight from the foreword:...