Introduction -- Part I: Plato's Republic. The shorter route in Republic II-IV ; The adequacy of the shorter route ; The longer route ; The role of metaphysics in Republic VIII-IX ; The cave allegory and the structure of the Republic -- Part II: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Political science and the longer route ; The limits of precision ; Explanation in NE I 4 and 7 ; Aristotle and the race course ; The 'Endoxic method' -- Conclusion.
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