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The case for greatness : honorable ambition and its critics /
This is a spirited look at political ambition, and particulary its good version, honourable ambition. Robert Faulkner contends that too many modern accounts of leadership slight such things as a determination to excel, good judgement, and a sense of honour, the very qualities that distinguish the tr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.