Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy

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