Megalopsychos

Quick meaning: Megalopsychos is a noun meaning (in Aristotelian philosophy) 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).

Meaning

(in Aristotelian philosophy) 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).

Example Sentences

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 in common with Nietzsche’s picture of the “higher” type of man.

Word Forms

• megalopsychoi
• megalopsuchos
• megalopsukhos
• megalopsychus
• megalopsykhos

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include megalopsychia, megalomania, megalography, superpersonality, megalord, megasociety.

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