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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2019
- ISBN 9780198840688
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 238x160x24 mm
- Weight 614 g
- Language English 58
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Short description:
In The Measure of Greatness, thirteen scholars explore the various philosophical and theological approaches to the virtue of magnanimity, or greatness of soul, in ancient, medieval, and modern thought.
MoreLong description:
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. Under changing names and reworked forms, it would continue to breathe in the thought of Descartes and Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche. Its many lives have been joined by important continuities, yet they have also been fragmented by discontinuities -- discontinuities reflecting larger shifts in ethical perspectives and competing answers to questions about the nature of the good life, the moral nature of human beings, and their relationship to the social and natural world they inhabit. They have also been punctuated by moments of intense controversy in which the vision of human greatness has itself been called into doubt. The aim of this volume is to provide an insight into the complex trajectory of a virtue whose glitter has at times been as dazzling as it has been divisive. By exploring the many lives it has lived, we will be in a better position to evaluate whether this is a virtue we still want to make central to our own ethical lives, and why.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Magnanimity as Generosity
Stoic Magnanimity
Strengthening Hope for the Greatest Things: Aquinas s Redemption of Magnanimity
Magnanimity, Christian Ethics and Paganism in The Latin Middle Ages
Greatness of Spirit in the Arabic Tradition
Cartesian Générosité and its Antecedents
Magnanimity and Modernity: Greatness of Soul and Greatness of Mind in the Enlightenment
The Kantian Sublime and Greatness of Mind
Nietzsche on Magnanimity, Greatness and Greatness of Soul
A Composite Portrait of a True American Philosophy on Magnanimity
21st Century Magnanimity: The Relevance of Aristotle s Ideal of Megalopsychia for Current Debates in Moral Psychology, Moral Education and Moral Philosophy
Greatness of Soul Across the Ages
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