The case for greatness honorable ambition and its critics / Robert Faulkner.

Author/creator Faulkner, Robert K., 1934-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press,
Descriptionxi, 264 p. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.
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LCCN 2007023112
ISBN9780300123937 (alk. paper)

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