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Magnanimity

Aristotle's 'great-souled' person: the one who knows he deserves great things and truly is worthy of them.

Magnanimity (megalopsychia, literally 'greatness of soul') is Aristotle's portrait, in the Nicomachean Ethics (4th c. BCE), of the person of complete virtue who rightly claims great honor and meets both good and bad fortune with calm dignity. Aristotle called it a kind of 'crown' of the virtues, because it presupposes all the rest. The ideal passed into Roman thought as magnanimitas and shaped later notions of nobility of character and high-mindedness.

How it traveled

Republic
Athens · -375
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Evagoras
Athens · -370
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Agesilaus
Athens · -354
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Cyropaedia
Athens · -354
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To Nicocles
Athens · -338
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Rhetoric
Chalcis · -335
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Nicomachean Ethics
Chalcis · -322
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Eudemian Ethics
Chalcis · -322
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Magna Moralia
Chalcis · -322
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Histories
Megalopolis · -118
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Philippicae
Formiae · -44
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Tusculanae Disputationes
Formiae · -43
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Discourses
Nicopolis · 108
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Alexander
Chaeronea · 120
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Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata [attributed]
Chaeronea · 120
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Apophthegmata Laconica
Chaeronea · 120
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Cato the Younger
Chaeronea · 120
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De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute
Chaeronea · 120
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Agis and Cleomenes
Chaeronea · 120
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Pericles
Chaeronea · 120
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De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando
Chaeronea · 120
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Dion
Chaeronea · 120
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Pyrrhus
Chaeronea · 120
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Aristides
Chaeronea · 120
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Fabius Maximus
Chaeronea · 120
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Sertorius
Chaeronea · 120
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Eumenes
Chaeronea · 120
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Ad Se Ipsum
Vindobona (Vienna) · 170
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Deipnosophistae
Naucratis · 230
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Vitae philosophorum
— · 240
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Key passages(20)

Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3.5.15↗explains

Eudemian Ethics · Aristotle