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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Magnanimity and statesmanship. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2008 (OCoLC)604759847 Online version: Magnanimity and statesmanship. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2008 (OCoLC)608520291 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carson Holloway |
ISBN: | 9780739117415 0739117416 |
OCLC Number: | 174112639 |
Description: | ix, 229 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Carson Holloway -- Magnanimity in classical and Christian political thought -- Aristotle's magnanimous man / Carson Holloway -- Magnanimity and statesmanship : the Ciceronian difference / James Fetter and Walter Nicgorski -- Thomas Aquinas on magnanimous and prudent statesmanship / Kenneth L. Deutsch -- Magnanimity and modernity -- Hobbes on magnanimity and statesmanship : replacing virtue with science / Geoffrey M. Vaughan -- Tocqueville on greatness and justice / Peter Augustine Lawler -- The magnanimous overman : on Nietzsche's transformation of Aristotle's greatness of soul / Jeffrey Church and Catherine H. Zuckert -- Magnanimous statesmen -- Magnanimity and martyrdom : the death and life of Thomas More / James R. Stoner Jr. -- George Washington's greatness and Aristotelian virtue : enduring lessons for constitutional democracy / Paul Carrese -- Lincoln and biblical magnanimity / Joseph R. Fornieri -- The statesman as great-souled man : Winston Churchill / Will Morrisey -- Index -- About the editor and contributors. |
Responsibility: | edited by Carson Holloway. |
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Writing with erudition and insight, the contributors to this volume address themselves to a fundamental problem of our time: we both want and need excellent political leadership, yet we do not fully grasp its character or conditions. This fine book clarifies our understanding of, and deepens our appreciation for, genuine political greatness, and it accordingly should be essential reading for scholars, statesmen, and citizens. -- Bradford P. Wilson, associate director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University For anyone who wants to understand the full history of classical, Christian, and modern thought about magnanimity and statesmanship, this is the indispensable book. -- Larry Arnhart, Northern Illinois University Read more...


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