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claims that in 413b1113 `Aristotle makes it explicit that the capacities mentioned are those that define the soul of the living beings' (p. 53).8 In a passage where Aristotle's Greek seems deliberately indeterminate and the state of the inquiry rather open, Johansen seems to be forcing the text to fit the framework he has set himself. In the book as a whole, there are enough similar instances that the overall argument may be called into question repeatedly. Nonetheless, there are many keen observations on particular passages and problems. There is much potential value in Johansen's volume, but that potential is perhaps not always fully actualized. Christopher Kurfess9 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Matthew R. Christ, The Limits of Altruism in Democratic Athens (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), x + 215 pp., $90.00, ISBN 9781107029774 (hbk). Matthew Christ's new book follows in the tracks of his earlier one, The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2006). If the two books share a single task it is to complicate our view of the relationship between individual citizens and the collective. They seek to caution readers against espousing a naïvely optimistic view of Athenian democracy and its influence on citizens' values.
Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2013
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