The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity 1st Edition

The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192577177, 0192577174

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192577174
• ISBN-13: 9780192577177
• Author: Sophia Vasalou

Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle’s account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most distinctive elements of the ancient tradition to filter into the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds. It sparked important intellectual engagements and went on to carve deep tracks through several of the later philosophies to inherit from this tradition.

Table contents:

1. Magnanimity as Generosity
1. English and Greek
2. Megalopsychia: Honour and Revenge
3. Why We Ought Not to Recall Evils
4. A Puzzle About Magnanimity
5. The Structure of Aristotle’s Argument in the Nicomachean Ethics
6. The Theoretical Centre of the Argument
7. The Inferior Status of External Goods
8. The Positive Role of External Goods
9. The Behavioural Expressions of Magnanimity
10. Why Megalopsychia Requires Magnanimity

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