Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Magnanimity in Classical and Christian Political Thought | |
Aristotle's Magnanimous Man | p. 13 |
Magnanimity and Statesmanship: The Ciceronian Difference | p. 29 |
Thomas Aquinas on Magnanimous and Prudent Statesmanship | p. 49 |
Magnanimity and Modernity | |
Hobbes on Magnanimity and Statesmanship: Replacing Virtue with Science | p. 67 |
Tocqueville on Greatness and Justice | p. 83 |
The Magnanimous Overman: On Nietzsche's Transformation of Aristotle's Greatness of Soul | p. 109 |
Magnanimous Statesmen | |
Magnanimity and Martyrdom: The Death and Life of Thomas More | p. 133 |
George Washington's Greatness and Aristotelian Virtue: Enduring Lessons for Constitutional Democracy | p. 145 |
Lincoln and Biblical Magnanimity | p. 171 |
The Statesman as Great-Souled Man: Winston Churchill | p. 197 |
Index | p. 221 |
About the Editor and Contributors | p. 227 |
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