Magnanimity and Statesmanship

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Carson 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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Introduction
1
MAGNANIMITY IN CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
11
Aristotles Magnanimous Man
13
Magnanimity and Statesmanship The Ciceronian Difference
29
Thomas Aquinas on Magnanimous and Prudent Statesmanship
49
MAGNANIMITY AND MODERNITY
65
Hobbes on Magnanimity and Statesmanship Replacing Virtue with Science
67
Tocqueville on Greatness and Justice
83
MAGNANIMOUS STATESMEN
131
Magnanimity and Martyrdom The Death and Life of Thomas More
133
George Washingtons Greatness and Aristotelian Virtue Enduring Lessons for Constitutional Democracy
145
Lincoln and Biblical Magnanimity
171
The Statesman as GreatSouled Man Winston Churchill
197
Index
221
About the Editor and Contributors
227
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The Magnanimous Overman On Nietzsches Transformation of Aristotles Greatness of Soul
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Carson Holloway is assistant professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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