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‘Master of Those Who Know’: Aristotle as Role Model for the Twenty-first Century Academician

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2017

Edith Hall
Edith Hall*
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King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. E-mail: edith.hall@kcl.ac.uk
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European Review , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 3 - 19
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