LEADER 03715nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910779240003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-300-15027-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300150278 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105017 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171538 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720160 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11417912 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720160 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10660979 035 $a(PQKB)10603128 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165635 035 $a(DE-B1597)484803 035 $a(OCoLC)1024018467 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300150278 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420969 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579368 035 $a(OCoLC)666930102 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420969 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105017 100 $a20070605d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe case for greatness$b[electronic resource] $ehonorable ambition and its critics /$fRobert Faulkner 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 264 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12393-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThe Case for Greatness is a spirited look at political ambition, good and bad, with particular attention to honorable ambition. Robert Faulkner contends that too many modern accounts of leadership slight such things as determination to excel, good judgment, justice, and a sense of honor-the very qualities that distinguish the truly great. And here he offers an attempt to recover "a reasonable understanding of excellence," that which distinguishes a Franklin D. Roosevelt and a Lincoln from lesser leaders. Faulkner finds the most telling diagnoses in antiquity and examines closely Aristotle's great-souled man, two accounts of the spectacular and dubious Athenian politician Alcibiades, and the life of the imperial conqueror Cyrus the Great. There results a complex and compelling picture of greatness and its problems. Faulkner dissects military and imperial ambition, the art of leadership, and, in the later example of George Washington, ambition in the service of popular self-government. He also addresses modern indictments of even the best forms of political greatness, whether in the critical thinking of Hobbes, the idealism of Kant, the relativism and brutalism of Nietzsche, or the egalitarianism of Rawls and Arendt. He shows how modern philosophy came to doubt and indeed disdain even the best forms of ambition. This book is a nuanced defense of admirable ambition and the honor-seeking life, as well as an irresistible invitation to apply these terms to our own times and leaders. 606 $aAmbition 615 0$aAmbition. 676 $a179/.9 700 $aFaulkner$b Robert K.$f1934-$01029980 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779240003321 996 $aThe case for greatness$93828133 997 $aUNINA