The case for greatness [electronic resource] : honorable ambition and its critics / Robert Faulkner.

By: Faulkner, Robert K, 1934-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2007Description: xi, 264 pISBN: 9780300150278 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): AmbitionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 179/.9 LOC classification: BJ1533.A4 | F38 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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