The case for greatness honorable ambition and its critics /

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Main Author: Faulkner, Robert K., 1934-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2007.
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Table of 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.