Is it possible to reconcile human excellence with a dedication to equality? Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy explores the meaning, conflict, and potential resolution of the tension between human excellence and equality in the thought of philosophers from Greek antiquity to modern times. Each chapter is devoted to the thought of a particular thinker, and the chapters are arranged chronologically. Interpretations offered here rely on close readings of the major texts by critically important thinkers from Plato, Aristotle and Xenophon in antiquity to a broad range of modern thinkers from Spinoza to Rawls.

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Publisher

SUNY Press

Year

2023

ISBN

9781438492803

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Political History & Theory

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Pursuing the Forms: Equality and Excellence in Plato’s Republic and Symposium
2 Equality and Excellence in the Education of Cyrus
3 Splendid Equality in the Nicomachean Ethics: Munificence
4 How Excellence Bows to Equality in Aristotle’s Politics
5 First among Equals: Philosophers, Statesmen, and Citizens in Spinoza’s Democracy
6 Excellence and Equality in Fénelon’s Telemachus
7 The Seductive Dangers of Equality and Excellence: The Moderating Wisdom of Montesquieu’s Science of Ovidian Metamorphosis
8 Equality and Excellence in Rousseau’s Emile, Book III
9 Hegel’s Evaluation of Liberalism: Equality of Rights without Human Excellence
10 Democracy, Nobility, and Freedom: The Political and Moral Aesthetics of Tocqueville
11 Does Kierkegaard Have a Concept of Excellence?
12 Nietzsche: The Indignity of Equality
13 The Good and the Excellent: John Rawls’s Egalitarian Liberalism
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Back Cover