The Quest for Character
What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
What Socrates's greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people? Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person-and failed spectacularly. Alcibiades went on to beguile his city into a hopeless war with Syracuse, and all of Athens paid the price. In The Quest for Character, philosophy professor Massimo Pigliucci tells this famous story and asks what we can learn from it. He blends ancient sources with modern interpretations to give a full picture of the philosophy and cultivation…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5416-4695-7
- EAN: 9781541646957
- Produktnummer: 38175815
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Massimo Pigliucci is the K. D. Irani professor of philosophy at the City College of New York. The author or editor of fifteen books, he has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Salon, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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