Magnanimity And Statesmanship

by Holloway, Carson; Carrese, Paul; Church, Jeffrey; Deustch, Kenneth L.; Fetter, James; Fornieri, Joseph R.; Lawler, Peter Augustine; Morrissey, Will; Nicgorski, Walter; Stoner, James R.; Vaughan, Geoffrey M.; Zuckert, Catherine H.

• ISBN13: 9780739117415
• ISBN10: 0739117416
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Magnanimity and Statesmanship is a collection of papers on the virtue of Aristotelian magnanimity (or greatness of soul) and its relationship to the history of political philosophy and to the art of statesmanship. Aristotle's account of the "great-souled man" may seem somewhat alien to the sensibilities of a modern democracy. There is, after all, an inegalitarian element in the great-souled man's confidence in his moral excellence and hence in his superior worthiness to hold public office. Nevertheless, even modern democratic thinkers admit that democracy needs, at least in certain crtiical phases in its development, political leaders who far excel their fellow citizens in virtue and wisdom.

Table of Contents

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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