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Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style - From Roman Imperialists to Sicilian Magistrates (Hardcover)
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Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style - From Roman Imperialists to Sicilian Magistrates (Hardcover)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
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This is an interdisciplinary work that philosophically analyzes
concepts such as heroism; practical wisdom; honor; Nietzsche's
notions of will to power, the overman, and the three metamorphoses;
Plato's understanding of love; creating meaning in life; the issue
of morally dirty hands in political administration; the
relationship between political means and ends; the proper role of
positive duties in society; the aspirations of grand strivers; and
the linkages between biological, biographical, and autobiographical
lives, all in the context of explaining and evaluating the lives
and works of fourteen historically significant Italian: Gaius
Julius Caesar, Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri, Caterina Sforza,
Niccolo Machiavelli, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi,
Francesca Cabrini, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Antonio Gramsci, Salvatore
Giuliano, Oriana Fallaci, Giovanni Falcone, and Paolo Borsellino.
By dissecting the lives and philosophies of the figures discussed
in this work, by extracting moral, political, and existential
lessons from their aspirations and enterprises, by reflecting on
their ideals from the vantage point of our divergent social
context, by evaluating their virtues and vices from a wider
perspective, and by confronting the conceptual puzzles and social
impediments hampering the exercise of practical wisdom and heroism,
we may confront the people that we are and reimagine the people we
might become.
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