Lincoln, Statesman and Logician
Author | : James Wills Bollinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Wills Bollinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1944 |
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Author | : James Wills Bollinger |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780428579487 |
Excerpt from Lincoln: Statesman and Logician Since that murky morning in the little back room of the Peterson house at Washington, when Rev. Dr. Gurley bowed his head upon a bloodstained coverlet and prayed fervently, historians, poets, philosophers and others have pondered the mystery of Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. Speculation and pronounce ment as to the source of his power, running through barrels of ink, include direct partnership with deity, barometric vagaries, spots on the sun and Pinkie, the little squaw spirit messenger! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Joseph R. Fornieri |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2014-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0809333309 |
2015 ISHS Superior Achievement Award What constitutes Lincoln’s political greatness as a statesman? As a great leader, he saved the Union, presided over the end of slavery, and helped to pave the way for an interracial democracy. His great speeches provide enduring wisdom about human equality, democracy, free labor, and free society. Joseph R. Fornieri contends that Lincoln’s political genius is best understood in terms of a philosophical statesmanship that united greatness of thought and action, one that combined theory and practice. This philosophical statesmanship, Fornieri argues, can best be understood in terms of six dimensions of political leadership: wisdom, prudence, duty, magnanimity, rhetoric, and patriotism. Drawing on insights from history, politics, and philosophy, Fornieri tackles the question of how Lincoln’s statesmanship displayed each of these crucial elements. Providing an accessible framework for understanding Lincoln’s statesmanship, this thoughtful study examines the sixteenth president’s political leadership in terms of the traditional moral vision of statecraft as understood by epic political philosophers such as Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Fornieri contends that Lincoln’s character is best understood in terms of Aquinas’s understanding of magnanimity or greatness of soul, the crowning virtue of statesmanship. True political greatness, as embodied by Lincoln, involves both humility and sacrificial service for the common good. The enduring wisdom and timeless teachings of these great thinkers, Fornieri shows, can lead to a deeper appreciation of statesmanship and of its embodiment in Abraham Lincoln. With the great philosophers and books of western civilization as his guide, Fornieri demonstrates the important contribution of normative political philosophy to an understanding of our sixteenth president. Informed by political theory that draws on the classics in revealing the timelessness of Lincoln’s example, his interdisciplinary study offers profound insights for anyone interested in the nature of leadership, statesmanship, political philosophy, political ethics, political history, and constitutional law.
Author | : David Lowenthal |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739171275 |
By analyzing many of Lincoln's most important speeches, The Mind and Art of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman shows him to be a profound and systematic thinker who tries to get at the root of issues, not all of them strictly political. Lowenthal emphasizes Lincoln's manner of writing, which enables him to conceal his most radical thoughts, and pays special attention to the reasoning and artfulness with which he treats a wide variety of subjects. The book follows Lincoln from his Perpetuation or Lyceum address in 1838 to his last speech just after Lee's surrender, as he confronts the great issues of the day and lays out the fundamentals of American politics. Along the way, Lowenthal's careful analysis frees Lincoln of the charge of racial prejudice with which he has been saddled in recent years.
Author | : Michael P. Zuckert |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0700629386 |
Our ideas of statesmanship are fraught with seeming contradictions: The democratic statesman is true to the people’s wishes and views—but also capable of standing against popular opinion when necessary. The statesman rises above conflicts and seeks compromise between parties—but also stands firmly for what is right. Abraham Lincoln, perhaps more than any other political figure in US history, affords us an opportunity to evaluate the philosophical, political, and practical implications of these paradoxical propositions. Asking whether and how Lincoln acted in a statesmanly manner at critical moments, the authors of this volume aim to clarify what precisely statesmanship might be; their work illuminates important themes and events in Lincoln’s career even as it broadens and sharpens our understanding of the general nature of statesmanship. One of Lincoln’s abiding themes was foreshadowed in his Lyceum Address, delivered when he was not yet thirty: the call for the prevalence of a sort of public opinion that he characterized as a political religion. As it relates to democratic statesmanship, what does Lincoln’s political religion have to do with religion per se? How, in his role as statesman as a master of democratic speech, did Lincoln handle the two major issues he faced as a political leader: slavery and the war? In attempting to meet the demand that he use acceptable means to achieve his ends, did Lincoln—can any statesman—keep his hands clean? Are there inevitable transgressions that a statesman must commit? These are among the topics the authors take on as they consider Lincoln’s democratic and rhetorical statesmanship, on occasion drawing comparisons with his contemporaries Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas or even such a distant forerunner as Pericles. Finally, framing statesmanship in terms of three factors—knowledge of the political good of a community, circumstance, and the best possible action in light of these two—this volume renders a nuanced, deeply informed judgment on what distinguishes Lincoln as a statesman, and what distinguishes a statesman from a (mere) politician.
Author | : James Garfield Randall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
"Dr. Randall, whom Allan Nevins called 'the profoundest student of Lincoln's career,' portrays Lincoln's steadfast liberalism against the background of a blundering generation. Here the unpopular Lincoln is met; the troubled and worried Lincoln made human. The curious friendship between Lincoln and John Bright is traced and the influence each exerted on the other. From these pages Lincoln emerges as a great liberal statesman in all that the term implies" --Back cover.
Author | : Dinesh D'Souza |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Lincoln, Abraham |
ISBN | : |
The key to understanding Lincoln's philosophy of statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice.
Author | : Arthur Latham Conger |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2019-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780656053391 |
Excerpt from President Lincoln as War Statesman The views of these professedly military histories, mingled in varying proportions, we find swallowed whole by the writers of many general histories who repeat, parrot-like, jibes against Lincoln's imbecile vacillation or bull-headed blundering, as the case may be, without attempting to understand or to analyze the points under discussion. Amid all this harsh condemnation the singu lar fact stands out that the common people, in whose good sense and judgment Lincoln so firmly trusted, have returned the compliment; they have not only refused to accept the quips of the captions critics but, on the con trary, as James Schouler so aptly puts it, see more colossal as time recedes, the figure of Abraham Lincoln, towering above his contemporaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Edgar S. Vaught |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1937 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : William Pickens |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781314891553 |
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