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megalopsychos

megalopsychos noun: 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).

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

Forms of megalopsychos

pluralmegalopsychoi
alternative formmegalopsuchos
alternative formmegalopsukhos
alternative formmegalopsychus
alternative formmegalopsykhos

Origin of megalopsychos

From the Ancient Greek μεγᾰλόψῡχος (megălópsūkhos, “great-souled man”, “magnanimous one”), from μεγᾰς (megăs, “great”) + ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “mind”, “spirit”, “soul”).

Questions about megalopsychos

What does megalopsychos mean?
Megalopsychos means 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).
What part of speech is megalopsychos?
Megalopsychos is a noun.
What is the plural of megalopsychos?
The plural of megalopsychos is megalopsychoi.

Words near megalopsychos in the dictionary

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

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