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Lerner, Ralph, trans.: Averroes on Plato's Republic.(Book review)

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From: Perspectives on Political Science
Date: 20060101
Author:Colmo, Christopher A.

Lerner, Ralph, trans. Averroes on Plato's Republic Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 176 pp., $16.95, ISBN 0-8014-8975-X Publication Date: July 2005

Joseph Cropsey has, over the past thirty years, made a powerful argument for the continuity of the philosophic tradition. Certainly Hobbes and Machiavelli often misread Plato and Aristotle, but the substantive differences recede toward a horizon we are never quite able to reach. What is the difference between ancients and moderns?

Enter Averroes on Plato's Republic in the clear and meticulous translation by Ralph Lerner. ...

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