| Magnanimity and Statesmanship Contributor(s): Holloway, Carson (Editor), Carrese, Paul (Contribution by), Church, Jeffrey (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739117416 ISBN-13: 9780739117415 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $127.71 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2008 Annotation: Magnanimity and Statesmanship, a collection of studies by a number distinguished political scientists, traces the changing understanding of great political leadership through the history of political philosophy. Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Nietzsche, and including treatments of such statesmen as Washington and Churchill, the book addresses the timely question What makes for great statesmanship? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Process - General |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 2007040137 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.41" W x 9.03" (1.09 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |