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- ↑ "Ronna C. Burger". Hudson Institute Political Studies . Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ↑ Skultety, Steven (11 January 2009). "Review of Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617 . Retrieved 2 March 2018.
