The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity

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The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity
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Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
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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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2: Stoic Magnanimity
	1. Mainstream Stoic View
	2. Magnanimity in Cicero’s De Officiis
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3: Strengthening Hope for the Greatest Things: Aquinas’s Redemption of Magnanimity
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4: Magnanimity, Christian Ethics, and Paganism in the Latin Middle Ages
	1. Magnanimity and a Neutral Scheme of Virtues
	2.1 Aquinas
	2.2 Magnanimity and the Not So Radical Arts Masters
	3. Magnanimity in the Fourteenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics
	4. Dante and Magnanimity
	5. Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Primary Texts
		Secondary Works
5: Greatness of Spirit in the Arabic Tradition
	1. Identifying the Subject: Two Questions
	2. Greatness of Soul: An Ancient Virtue and Its Fate
	3. Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: Aspiring to the Greatest Virtue
	4. Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī: Aspiring to the Eternal
	5. Greatness of Spirit Against Its Sources
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6: Cartesian Générosité and Its Antecedents
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7: Magnanimity and Modernity: Greatness of Soul and Greatness of Mind in the Enlightenment
	1. Hume: Greatness of Mind, Sentiment, and Spectatorship
	2. Smith: Magnanimity and ‘Absolute Perfection’
	3. Witherspoon’s Christian Magnanimity
	4. Conclusion
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8: The Kantian Sublime and Greatness of Mind
	1. Situating Magnanimity and the Kantian Sublime
	2. Self and Scale: The Sublime as a Comparative Aesthetic Experience
	3. The Self as Exalted Mind
	4. Humility, the ‘Insignificant Self’, and the Moral Domain
	5. The Embodied Self and the Sublime
	6. Conclusion
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9: Nietzsche on Magnanimity, Greatness, and Greatness of Soul
	1. Introduction
	2. Exemplars and Preliminaries
	3. The Characteristics of Nietzschean Greatness and Greatness of Soul
	4. Relation to Aristotle
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10: A Composite Portrait of a True American Philosophy on Magnanimity
	1. Emerson: Religious Magnanimity
	2. Emerson and Fuller: Magnanimous Friendship
	3. Emerson, Fuller, Hume, and Smith: An Ongoing Tradition
	4. Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau: Poverty and Wilderness
	5. Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
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11: Twenty-First-Century Magnanimity: The Relevance of Aristotle’s Ideal of Megalopsychia for Current Debates in Moral Psychology, Moral Education, and Moral Philosophy
	1. Introduction: ‘An Insightful Mess’
	2. Moral Psychology: Self, Self-Concept, and Megalopsychia
	3. Moral Education: Developmental Levels and Individualization
	4. Moral Philosophy: Role-Based Moralities—Blessings and Burdens
	5. Concluding Remarks
	Acknowledgements
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12: Greatness of Soul Across the Ages
	1. The Homeric
	2. Socrates
	3. Aristotle
	4. The New Testament
	5. Stoicism
	6. The Arabic Tradition
	7. Aquinas
	8. Descartes
	9. Three Enlightenment Thinkers
		9.1. David Hume
		9.2. Adam Smith
		9.3. John Witherspoon
	10. Kant and the Sublime Mind
	11. Nietzsche
	12. Three American Philosophers
		12.1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
		12.2. Margaret Fuller
		12.3. Henry David Thoreau
	13. Lincoln
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