The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation Mahoney Daniel J.
The Statesman as Thinker addresses the role of the thoughtful statesman in sustaining free and lawful political communities. It aims to restore fundamental distinctions--between the noble statesman,…
Specifikacia The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation Mahoney Daniel J.
The Statesman as Thinker addresses the role of the thoughtful statesman in sustaining free and lawful political communities. It aims to restore fundamental distinctions--between the noble statesman, the run-of-the mill politician, and the despot who subverts freedom and civilization--that have largely been lost in contemporary political thought and discourse. Reducing politics to the mere struggle for power, to a barely concealed cynicism and nihilism, tells us little about the true nature of political life.This book provides thoughtful and elegant portraits of, and reflections on, a series of statesmen who struggled to preserve civilized freedom during times of crisis: Solon overcoming insidious class conflict in ancient Athens; Cicero using all the powers of rhetoric and statesmanship to preserve republican liberty in Rome against Caesar's encroaching despotism; Burke
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