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List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Terence Irwin: Magnanimity as Generosity
- 2: Christopher Gill: Stoic Magnanimity
- 3: Jennifer A. Herdt: Strengthening Hope for the Greatest Things: Aquinas s Redemption of Magnanimity
- 4: John Marenbon: Magnanimity, Christian Ethics and Paganism in The Latin Middle Ages
- 5: Sophia Vasalou: Greatness of Spirit in the Arabic Tradition
- 6: Michael Moriarty: Cartesian Générosité and its Antecedents
- 7: Ryan P. Hanley: Magnanimity and Modernity: Greatness of Soul and Greatness of Mind in the Enlightenment
- 8: Emily Brady: The Kantian Sublime and Greatness of Mind
- 9: Andrew Huddleston: Nietzsche on Magnanimity, Greatness and Greatness of Soul
- 10: Andrew J. Corsa and Eric Schliesser: A Composite Portrait of a True American Philosophy on Magnanimity
- 11: Kristján Kristjánsson: 21st Century Magnanimity: The Relevance of Aristotle s Ideal of Megalopsychia for Current Debates in Moral Psychology, Moral Education and Moral Philosophy
- 12: Robert C. Roberts: Greatness of Soul Across the Ages
About the author
Sophia Vasalou is currently a Senior Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow in Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. She studied at SOAS University of London and the University of Cambridge, and has published widely on Islamic ethics and other philosophical subjects. Her books include Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics (Princeton 2008), Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime (Cambridge 2013), Wonder: A Grammar (SUNY 2015), Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics (Oxford 2015), and Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition (Oxford 2019).
Summary
In The Measure of Greatness, thirteen scholars explore the various philosophical and theological approaches to the virtue of magnanimity, or greatness of soul, in ancient, medieval, and modern thought.
