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The Need for Statesmanship

By Filings on Thu, 10/01/26
Society & Culture
Statesmanship
Politicians
Political Philosophy
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“The political entrepreneur seeks to gain office and to keep it, willing to go with the flow. The political visionary pursues what we might call a post-political ideal which imagines transcending the ancient recognition that we are by nature political beings….The statesman is the one who finds the mean between these alternatives, seeking improvement within the limits of the human condition” - L&L

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Topics: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Statesmanship, Leadership
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