Magnanimity and StatesmanshipCarson Holloway Lexington Books, 2008 - 229 páginas 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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... modern reinterpretations of justice and philosophy by crowning them with a radicalized version of magnanimity . THE PROBLEM POSED BY THE DECLINE OF MODERN VIRTUE The philosopher's task , according to Nietzsche , is to unearth the ...
... modern reinterpretations of justice and philosophy by crowning them with a radicalized version of magnanimity . THE PROBLEM POSED BY THE DECLINE OF MODERN VIRTUE The philosopher's task , according to Nietzsche , is to unearth the ...
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... modern philosophy carried out this dialectical undermining , when modern philosophers took up the challenge of putting together the pieces of the Christian worldview , the eschatology demanded by justice and the ontol- ogy of a ...
... modern philosophy carried out this dialectical undermining , when modern philosophers took up the challenge of putting together the pieces of the Christian worldview , the eschatology demanded by justice and the ontol- ogy of a ...
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... modern philosophy bows to the construc- tions of the world by modern natural science , which finds the source of dis- tinctively human things - namely , justice , the good , and history - in nonhuman nature . From modern science human ...
... modern philosophy bows to the construc- tions of the world by modern natural science , which finds the source of dis- tinctively human things - namely , justice , the good , and history - in nonhuman nature . From modern science human ...
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Aristotles Magnanimous Man | 13 |
The Ciceronian Difference | 29 |
Thomas Aquinas on Magnanimous and Prudent Statesmanship | 49 |
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