Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Pursuing the Forms 9
6. Equality and Excellence in the Education of Cyrus 33
7. Splendid Equality in the Nicomachean Ethics Munificence 53
8. How Excellence Bows to Equality in Aristotle's Politics 67
9. First among Equals 89
10. Excellence and Equality in Fénelon’s Telemachus 103
11. The Seductive Dangers of Equality and Excellence 121
12. Equality and Excellence in Rousseau's Emile, Book III 143
13. Hegel's Evaluation of Liberalism 159
14. Democracy, Nobility, and Freedom 173
15. Does Kierkegaard Have a Concept of Excellence? 187
16. Nietzsche 199
17. The Good and the Excellent 215
18. Selected Bibliography 229
19. Contributors 241
20. Index 245