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Nomos VII: Rational Decision. Edited by Carl J. Friedrich. (New York: Atherton Press, 1964. Pp. viii, 228. $6.50).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Richard E. Flathman
Richard E. Flathman
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University of Chicago
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American Political Science Review , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , June 1965 , pp. 452 - 454
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1965

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References

1 See the essays in Chappell, V. C., ed., Ordinary Language (Prentice-Hall, 1964)Google Scholar.

2 Note the extent to which Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is taken up with analysis of ordinary language.

3 Nicomachean Ethics, II, 2 Google Scholar. (Wheelwright translation.) Several of the essays in the present volume, particularly those by Pennock, Freund, Ladd, and Mavrinac, are solid albeit brief efforts in this direction.

4 The discussion of Mansfield's paper is relevant to Gottfried Dietze's argument concerning “absolute” rationality and to Heinz Eulau's construction of a “model” of rationality as well.

5 I have of course ignored the many difficulties with this argument. Some of them are dealt with in the essays summarized above. The reviewer is attempting to deal with aspects of these problems as they relate to politics, in a forthcoming work entitled The Public Interest, An Essay in the Logic of the Normative, Discourse of Politics.