The case for greatness
Faulkner, Robert K., 1934-
The case for greatness honorable ambition and its critics / [electronic resource] : Robert Faulkner. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2007. - xi, 264 p.
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.
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ebrary,
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Ambition.
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The case for greatness honorable ambition and its critics / [electronic resource] : Robert Faulkner. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2007. - xi, 264 p.
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Ambition.
Electronic books.
BJ1533.A4 / F38 2007eb
179/.9