1/4: The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era (X) Paperback – by Gregory R. Copley (Author)

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1/4: The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era (X) Paperback –
by Gregory R. Copley (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Noble-State-Governance-Options-Ignoble/dp/1892998173/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LV80LP9FHKZI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pvXWpnq6EPCJu8yxYv54rQl1egBC1ybVBcHGeoLy6pj3WBxV7NKmVH2fuCDu-3cWJ6CeAlYZg8veoruaAhnB3b-rHyiJ4lGFtecSy3a-bj4Msc3dhuT5nPZip6kPggiuBNC1kwvPssKIqe9ZYDfWmyutJkGCtYMIStFjQaLt8zJJL1iuSdBdvdHOPOsnmQB8WjWAREnv2Djztd9tZl6RWPbI5l5ojJp9rl_JYxlB4oE.TIm-eCLeUcGiTuwK6YG5UCQd4DVmiCySTSMjtqugV3Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=gregory+copley&qid=1741385652&sprefix=GREGORY+COPLEY%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-1

Award-winning Australian strategic philosopher Gregory Copley, in his 37th book, argues that without nobility of leadership, a society cannot have the self-possession to accept nobility in itself. And without nobility of purpose and ideals, a nation-state cannot acquire the prestige and authority it needs to project its influence onto the global stage. But what constitutes nobility and the resultant leadership which brings prestige and influence? How does prestige create the deterrence and power projection to enable militaries to — as Sun-tzu said — win without fighting? What forms of government are best suited to the long-term embedding of nobility — and therefore stability — in governance? Copley looks at the power, now reviving, of modern constitutional monarchies, and how republics can learn from them in an age when all are combating autocracies and totalitarianism..

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0:00.0	This is CBS Eye on the World.
0:07.0	Here's John Batchelor.
0:09.0	It's a great pleasure to welcome my colleague and friend and mentor, Gregory Copley, for his new book,
0:15.0	The Noble State Governance Options in an Ignoble Era.
0:20.0	We begin with the word noble, as in nobility.
0:24.9	That is critical to understand because we have not left it behind in the Enlightenment period.
0:30.8	We are not headed to a period where the word noble is going to take on some other version of itself.
0:38.0	It is now what it was 100,000, 2,000 years ago.
0:42.7	It is a quality, and it attaches to people of all kinds.
0:48.4	However, we need to define it very carefully here
0:51.5	because we're talking about politics in the 21st century. Gregory,
0:56.0	congratulations. A very good evening. Nobility, a definition that can help us through this
1:01.4	conversation. Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, nobility is the characteristic,
1:07.7	which is in, as you say, all people at all stages, if they choose to embrace it.
1:14.0	And that is to have a degree of, if you like, purity of intention, honorable behavior,
1:23.3	honorable treatment of others, and to represent the values of their society.
1:30.2	Some of these values change over the decades and centuries. Some of them may be seen in
1:36.4	retrospect as savagery in some eras or militancy or in other senses in humanitarian aspects.
1:46.4	All of these become part of the essence of the noble man.
1:51.2	And, of course, the book is about the noble state.
1:54.9	So how do you get from a noble individual to a noble state?
1:58.5	Well, you need to have that through the nobility of leadership.
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