Studies
Leadership
Classical and historical inquiry into rule, command, judgement and the stewardship of institutions.
Leadership in the classical tradition is not a list of habits or a psychological type. It is a question about what kind of person should hold authority, what habits of mind that role demands, and what the relationship is between virtue, judgement and command.
The Leadership section reads across Plato’s philosopher-king and Aristotle’s phronēsis, Cicero’s De Officiis, Tacitus’ portraits of imperial rule, the long Christian and humanist mirrors-for-princes tradition, and the realist tradition of Machiavelli, Guicciardini and their inheritors.