{"id":54,"date":"2008-03-12T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/12\/humility-magnanimity\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:36:00","slug":"humility-magnanimity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/humility-magnanimity\/","title":{"rendered":"Humility & Magnanimity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aquinas’ list of virtues does not altogether tally with Aristotle’s, though he works hard to Christianize some of the more pagan characters who figure in Ethics. <\/em>Aristotle’s ideal man is great-souled, that is to say, he is a highly superior being who is very conscious of his own superiority to others. How can this be reconciled with the Christian virtue of humility? By a remarkable piece of intellectual legerdemain, Aquinas makes magnanimity not only compatible with humility but part of the very same virtue. There is a virtue, he says, that is the moderation of ambition, a virtue based on on a just appreciation of one’s own gifts and defects. Humility is the aspect that ensures that one’s ambitions are based on a just assessment of one’s defects, magnanimity is the aspect that ensures that they are based on a just assessment of one’s gifts. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anthony Kenny, Medieval Philosophy, <\/em>Vol 2., 73.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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