Equality & excellence in ancient & modern political philosophy / edited by Steven Frankel & John Ray

Additional Titles:: Equality and excellence in ancient and modern political philosophy
Published:: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]
Physical Description:: ix, 253 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Frankel, Steven, 1968- and Ray, John A., 1957-

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Pursuing the Forms: Equality and Excellence in Plato's Republic and Symposium -- Equality and Excellence in the Education of Cyrus -- Splendid Equality in the Nicomachean Ethics: Munificence -- How Excellence Bows to Equality in Aristotle's Politics -- First Among Equals: Philosophers, Statesmen, and Citizens in Spinoza's Democracy -- Excellence and Equality in Fénelon's Telemachus -- The Seductive Danger of Equality and Excellence: The Moderating Wisdom of Montesquieu's Science of Ovidian Metamorphosis -- Equality and Excellence in Rousseau's Emile, Book III -- Hegel's Evaluation of Liberalism: Equality of Rights without Human Excellence -- Democracy, Nobility, and Freedom: The Political and Moral Aesthetics of Tocqueville -- Does Kierkegaard Have a Concept of Excellence? -- Nietzsche: The Indignity of Equality -- The Good and the Excellent: John Rawls's Egalitarian Liberalism.

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History

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9781438492780 hardcover
1438492782 hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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