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The case for greatness : honorable ambition and its critics / Robert Faulkner.
LIBRA BJ1533.A4 F38 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faulkner, Robert K., 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ambition.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- A searching defense of great political leadership
- Contents:
- Introduction: honorable statesmen and obscuring theories
- The gentleman-statesman : Aristotle's (complicated) great-souled man
- Imperial ambition in free politics : the problem of Thucydides' Alcibiades
- The soul of grand ambition : Alcibiades cross-examined by Socrates
- Imperial grandeur and imperial hollowness : Xenophon's Cyrus the Great
- Obscuring the truly great : Washington and modern theories of fame
- Honorable greatness denied (1) : the egalitarian web
- Honorable greatness denied (2) : the premises.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300123937
- 0300123930
- OCLC:
- 144570817
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