The Moral Psychology of Leadership: Summary of “Sensual Austerity and Moral Leadership: Perspectives From Plato, Confucius and Gandhi on Building a Peaceful Society”

The Moral Psychology of Leadership: Summary of “Sensual Austerity and Moral Leadership: Perspectives From Plato, Confucius and Gandhi on Building a Peaceful Society”

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In our recent book, Sensual Austerity and Moral Leadership: Perspectives From Plato, Confucius and Gandhi on Building a Peaceful Society we advance a two-fold thesis: One claim is that a close reading of classical social-political thought across major world cultures (represented in our study of Plato in the West, Confucius in east Asia, and Gandhi in south Asia) indicates that they all recognized an important connection between sensual austerity...