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Magnanimity and Statesmanship

Magnanimity and Statesmanship

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0739117416
ISBN13: 9780739117415
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 1 2008
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.03
Language: English

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.

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