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The case for greatness : honorable ambition and its critics
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The case for greatness : honorable ambition and its critics

Robert K. Faulkner

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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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