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megalopsychoi

megalopsychoi is the plural of megalopsychos.

Meaning of megalopsychos

Noun

megalopsychos (plural megalopsychoi)

  1. Aristotle’s “great-souled man”: an aristocratic paragon who embodies the virtues to an exceptional degree (a figure described chiefly in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics).
    • Nietzsche could not, for instance, accuse Aristotle of preaching a morality of pity, nor of extolling humility. On the contrary Aristotle’s description of the megalopsychos who possesses the virtue of greatness of soul and “deserves and claims great things” (Nicomachean Ethics 1123 a 15) has much...1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 164

Questions about megalopsychoi

What is megalopsychoi the plural of?
Megalopsychoi is the plural of megalopsychos.

Words near megalopsychoi in the dictionary

  1. megalops
  2. megalopses
  3. megalopsia
  4. megalopsias
  5. megalopsychia
  6. megalopsychoi
  7. megalopsychos
  8. megalopsychy
  9. megalopteran
  10. megalopterans
  11. megalopterous

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