Magnanimity and StatesmanshipCarson Holloway Lexington Books, 2008 - 229 頁 Magnanimity and Statesmanship is a collection of papers on the virtue of Aristotelian magnanimity (or greatness of soul) and its relationship to the history of political philosophy and to the art of statesmanship. Aristotle's account of the "great-souled man" may seem somewhat alien to the sensibilities of a modern democracy. There is, after all, an inegalitarian element in the great-souled man's confidence in his moral excellence and hence in his superior worthiness to hold public office. Nevertheless, even modern democratic thinkers admit that democracy needs, at least in certain critical phases in its development, political leaders who far excel their fellow citizens in virtue and wisdom. This book, then, traces the path of magnanimity in the history of political philosophy and examines certain statesmen in light of this virtue, all with a view to addressing the following questions: What is magnanimity, and what is its relationship to political life? Is magnanimity compatible with Christianity, or with the modern commitment to equality? Does modernity still stand in need of such a virtue? Can magnanimity flourish under modern conditions? Are there examples of political leaders whose lives exemplify this virtue and the study of whose political conduct can deepen our understanding of it? |
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... democracy . Tocqueville advanced similar arguments two millennia after Aristotle amid his astute ob- servations on both the soul of modern democracy and the fate of souls within modern democracy . After turning from his examination of ...
... democracy . Tocqueville advanced similar arguments two millennia after Aristotle amid his astute ob- servations on both the soul of modern democracy and the fate of souls within modern democracy . After turning from his examination of ...
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... democracy found its animating moral principle in nationalism , not in the laws of nature and of nature's God . As aristocracy is to religion , democracy is to nationalism.17 Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points embodied this principle of ...
... democracy found its animating moral principle in nationalism , not in the laws of nature and of nature's God . As aristocracy is to religion , democracy is to nationalism.17 Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points embodied this principle of ...
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Carson Holloway. That is " democracy properly understood " — " the association of all through the leadership of the best . " 35 What Churchill means by democracy Aristotle would classify as a mixed regime consisting of aristocracy and ...
Carson Holloway. That is " democracy properly understood " — " the association of all through the leadership of the best . " 35 What Churchill means by democracy Aristotle would classify as a mixed regime consisting of aristocracy and ...
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Aristotles Magnanimous Man | 13 |
The Ciceronian Difference | 29 |
Thomas Aquinas on Magnanimous and Prudent Statesmanship | 49 |
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