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The Case for Greatness - Honorable Ambition and Its Critics (Paperback)
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The Case for Greatness - Honorable Ambition and Its Critics (Paperback)
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A searching defense of great political leadership The Case for
Greatness is a spirited look at political ambition, good and bad,
with particular attention to honorable ambition. Robert Faulkner
contends that too many modern accounts of leadership slight such
things as determination to excel, good judgment, justice, and a
sense of honor-the very qualities that distinguish the truly great.
And here he offers an attempt to recover "a reasonable
understanding of excellence," that which distinguishes a Franklin
D. Roosevelt and a Lincoln from lesser leaders. Faulkner finds the
most telling diagnoses in antiquity and examines closely
Aristotle's great-souled man, two accounts of the spectacular and
dubious Athenian politician Alcibiades, and the life of the
imperial conqueror Cyrus the Great. There results a complex and
compelling picture of greatness and its problems. Faulkner dissects
military and imperial ambition, the art of leadership, and, in the
later example of George Washington, ambition in the service of
popular self-government. He also addresses modern indictments of
even the best forms of political greatness, whether in the critical
thinking of Hobbes, the idealism of Kant, the relativism and
brutalism of Nietzsche, or the egalitarianism of Rawls and Arendt.
He shows how modern philosophy came to doubt and indeed disdain
even the best forms of ambition. This book is a nuanced defense of
admirable ambition and the honor-seeking life, as well as an
irresistible invitation to apply these terms to our own times and
leaders.
General
Imprint: |
Yale University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2014 |
First published: |
May 2014 |
Authors: |
Robert Faulkner
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Dimensions: |
229 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-20973-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
0-300-20973-8 |
Barcode: |
9780300209730 |
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