Book Reviews : Constitutional Government and Democracy. By CARL J. FRIEDRICH. (Boston : Ginn and Company. 1946. Pp. xix, 695. $4.50.)

• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400322
• Published date: 01 September 1951
• Author: Bernard L. Kronick
• Date: 01 September 1951
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Chinese philosophy, deal with many thinkers spread over a very long
period of time; the chapters on Aristotelianism and on Kant’s critical
philosophy concentrate on a single man; but most of the chapters deal
with a group of philosophers who have some fairly definite element
in common-time or attitude or problem. Representative chapter head-
ings are &dquo;Early Greek Moralists,&dquo; &dquo;Renaissance Philosophies,&dquo; &dquo;Personal-
ism,&dquo; &dquo;Logical Positivism,&dquo; and &dquo;Recent Epistemological Schools.&dquo; The
chapters ate so brief as to be of little or no use to adepts in the fields
they cover, but they are suitable as introductory orientations. Many of
the bibliographies are good.
There is no chapter especially devoted to political philosophy, but
political theories are given particular consideration in the chapters en-
titled &dquo;The Philosophy of the Enlightenment,&dquo; and &dquo;Dialectical Material-
ism.&dquo; Also pertinent are the chapters on philosophies of history and
philosophies of culture.
About half of the book is devoted to twentieth century philosophies.
In view of the reputation of The Philosophical Library, perhaps, it is
also worth mentioning that the volume is attractively printed on good
waner.
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University of Utah.
Constitutional Government and Democracy. By CARL J. FRIEDRICH. (Bos-
ton : Ginn and Company. 1946. Pp. xix, 695. $4.50.)
This book, subtitled &dquo;Theory and Practice in Europe and America,&dquo;
is a revised edition of the author’s Constitutional Government and Politics
(1937). The seventy-five pages of annotated bibliography following the
text is, perhaps, the richest of its kind. Hardly anyone in the profession
but stands in its debt.
For almost a decade and a half, Friedrich’s book has been used widely
as a text and reference. It is doubtful that any other work of a com-
parable nature could serve so many academic purposes. The very few
that provide more...