The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity

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Cover The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Bibliography 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 Bibliography 2: Stoic Magnanimity 1. Mainstream Stoic View 2. Magnanimity in Cicero’s De Officiis Bibliography 3: Strengthening Hope for the Greatest Things: Aquinas’s Redemption of Magnanimity 1. 2. 3. 4. Bibliography 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 Bibliography 6: Cartesian Générosité and Its Antecedents 1. 2. 3. 4. Bibliography 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 Bibliography 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 Bibliography 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 Bibliography 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 Bibliography 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 Bibliography 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 Bibliography Index