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Introduction. The Political Geometry of Glory --
Elements of Political Geometry --
The Co-Ordinates of Man: Time and Space --
The Political Appeal of Motion --
The Time Dimension of the Mind --
Time and Politics --
Fatal Equality --
Equalities and Differences --
Human Fragility --
Political Equality and Social Inequality --
Is Equal Dangerousness Self-Evident? --
The Axiom of Glory --
Definitions of Glory --
Forms of Glory --
Value-Loaded and Descriptive Terms --
Glory and Honour --
Glory and Self-preservation --
Glory and Felicity --
Glory: Parallels and Intersections --
The Sources of Hobbesian Glory --
Aristotle's honour --
Biblical pride --
Aristocratic honour --
Glory and bourgeois greed --
Bacon's Essays --
Thucydides and Hobbes on Glory: Influence or Coincidence? --
Glory, honour, and ambition --
Accumulation of wealth and the pursuit of honour --
The lessons of war --
Thucydides' fate and Hobbes's faith in education --
Ambition: Paradoxes and Puzzles --
The Political Consequences of Ambition --
Ambition in Anti-White --
Ambition in Behemoth --
Ambition in Elements of Law, De Cive, and Leviathan --
Civil War in Thucydides and Hobbes --
The Implications of Private and Public Money --
Thucydides' Paradox of Ambition and Hobbes's Solution --
Hobbes's Puzzle --
Beehives and behaviour --
The three greatest things --
Proximate and ultimate causes of conflict --
The Dilemma of Fear and Hope --
Characterisation of Fear --
The Role of Fear --
The Effectiveness of Fear --
Thucydides' Dilemma of Fear --
The Trajectory of Glory. |
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