
Harvey Mansfield on Locke, Aristotle, and the Spirit of Liberalism
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Aristotle's Land of Virtue
Lewis: The land of virtue either never existed or certainly wasn't so obvious. I mean, and the Lewis, I like the Louis Armstrong point very much. But of course, as you suggest, he's recognized his excellence is recognized in a egalitarian democracy. So that somehow means that democracies can have some appreciation of excellence. It's not named after a random person picked out of the phone book. And he's only, the airport's only named that.
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