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0r967368075	James Thomas Fetter	The Great Man in Politics: Magnanimity in the History of Western Political Thought	2012		.txt	text/plain	171	4	17	I conclude that Cicero had a far greater influence on both Aquinas's and Machiavelli's understandings of this virtue and, more broadly, on statesmanship than generally thought, and I further conclude that Ciceronian magnanimity offers liberal democracies a useful model of magnanimous statesmanship apart from any commitment to virtue ethics or teleology. In this dissertation, I contend that the growing disenchantment with public institutions in Western democracies and the popular desire for leaders perceived to be of good moral character both justifies and calls for an investigation of the Western tradition of political philosophy to determine which, if any, models of virtuous statesmanship in that tradition may serve as a useful model of virtuous leadership for our own time.	cache/0r967368075.txt	txt/0r967368075.txt