The case for greatness
Subtitle: honorable ambition and its critics
By: Robert Faulkner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780300123937; 9780300120202
Subjects: Ambition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: honorable statesmen and obscuring theories; title: The gentleman-statesman : Aristotle's (complicated) great-souled man; title: Imperial ambition in free politics : the problem of Thucydides' Alcibiades; title: The soul of grand ambition : Alcibiades cross-examined by Socrates; title: Imperial grandeur and imperial hollowness : Xenophon's Cyrus the Great; title: Obscuring the truly great : Washington and modern theories of fame; title: Honorable greatness denied (1) : the egalitarian web; title: Honorable greatness denied (2) : the premises