Tempered Strength: Studies in the Nature and Scope of Prudential Leadership

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Ethan M. Fishman
Lexington Books, 2002 - 225 páginas
Moral leadership matters. As world politics enters a new and dangerous era, judgment, constancy, moral purpose, and a willingness to overcome partisan politicking are essential for America's leaders. Tempered Strength finds the alternative standard of leadership that Americans are seeking in the classical philosophy of prudence. Ethan Fishman's new work brings together leading American political scientists--including Ronald Beiner, Kenneth L. Deutsch, and George Anastaplo--to discuss the evolution of a standard of prudential leadership both reasonable in nature and practical in scope. Section One studies the meaning of prudence and its evolution in the history of political science from Aristotelian phronesis to Xenophon, Thomas Aquinas, Edmund Burke, and Michael Oakeshott. Section Two demonstrates how the theory of prudential leadership can be applied to practical political issues.
 

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Introduction What Is Prudential Leadership?
THE NATURE OF PRUDENCE
11
Prudence in Xenophons Memorabilia and Cyropaedia
13
Thomas Aquinas on Magnanimous and Prudent Statesmanship
29
The Role of Prudence in Burkes Politics
49
Bringing Prudence Back In Leadership Statecraft and Political Science
67
A Postscript to Political Judgment
81
THE SCOPE OF PRUDENCE
97
Political Judgment in Dark Times Frederick Douglass and Slavery
99
Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation A Model of Prudent Leadership
121
Prudence Imprudence and the Puzzle of Bill Clinton
147
Prudence and the Constitution On the Year 2000 Presidential Election Controversy
177
Index
215
About the Contributors
219
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