Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy

Steven Frankel is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. He is coeditor (with Martin D. Yaffe) of Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville. John Ray is Associate Professor of Political Science at Xavier University. He is coeditor (with Steven Frankel) of French Studies: Literature, Culture and Politics.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Steven Frankel and John Ray

1. Pursuing the Forms: Equality and Excellence in Plato’s Republic and Symposium
Stephanie A. Nelson

2. Equality and Excellence in the Education of Cyrus
Nathan Tarcov

3. Splendid Equality in the Nicomachean Ethics: Munificence
Ann Charney Colmo

4. How Excellence Bows to Equality in Aristotle’s Politics
Mary P. Nichols

5. First among Equals: Philosophers, Statesmen, and Citizens in Spinoza’s Democracy
Steven Frankel

6. Excellence and Equality in Fénelon’s Telemachus
Ryan Patrick Hanley

7. The Seductive Dangers of Equality and Excellence: The Moderating Wisdom of Montesquieu’s Science of Ovidian Metamorphosis
Frank J. Rohmer

8. Equality and Excellence in Rousseau’s Emile, Book III
Pamela K. Jensen

9. Hegel’s Evaluation of Liberalism: Equality of Rights without Human Excellence
Andrea E. Ray

10. Democracy, Nobility, and Freedom: The Political and Moral Aesthetics of Tocqueville
John C. Koritansky

11. Does Kierkegaard Have a Concept of Excellence?
Christopher A. Colmo

12. Nietzsche: The Indignity of Equality
Timothy Sean Quinn

13. The Good and the Excellent: John Rawls’s Egalitarian Liberalism
Michael Zuckert

Bibliography
Contributors
Index