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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 critical phases in its development, political leaders who far excel their fellow citizens in virtue and wisdom.
This book, then, traces the path of magnanimity in the history of political philosophy and examines certain statesmen in light of this virtue, all with a view to addressing the following questions: What is magnanimity, and what is its relationship to political life? Is magnanimity compatible with Christianity, or with the modern commitment to equality? Does modernity still stand in need of such a virtue? Can magnanimity flourish under modern conditions? Are there examples of political leaders whose lives exemplify this virtue and the study of whose political conduct can deepen our understanding of it?
Contents
Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 1. Introduction
Part 3 Part I: Magnanimity in Classical and Christian Political Thought
Chapter 4 2. Aristotle's Magnanimous Man
Chapter 5 3. Magnanimity and Statesmanship: The Ciceronian Difference
Chapter 6 4. Thomas Aquinas on Magnanimous and Prudent Statesmanship
Part 7 Part II: Magnanimity and Modernity
Chapter 8 5. Hobbes on Magnanimity and Statesmanship: Replacing Virtue with Science
Chapter 9 7. The Magnanimous Overman: On Nietzsche's Transformation of Aristotle's Greatness of Soul
Chapter 9 6. Tocqueville on Greatness and Justice
Part 11 Part III: Magnanimous Statesmen
Chapter 12 9. George Washington's Greatness and Aristotelian Virtue: Enduring Lessons for Constitutional Democracy
Chapter 12 8. Magnanimity and Martyrdom: The Death and Life of Thomas More
Chapter 14 10. Lincoln and Biblical Magnanimity
Chapter 15 The Statesman as Great-Souled Man: Winston Churchill
Chapter 16 About the Contributors
