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Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness (Hardcover)
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Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness (Hardcover)
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Since Aristotle, the concept of the magnanimous or great-souled man
was employed by philosophers of antiquity to describe individuals
who attained the highest degree of virtue. Greatness of soul
(magnitudo animi or magnanimitas) was part of the language of
Classical and Hellenistic virtue theory central to the education of
Ambrose and Augustine. Yet as bishops they were conscious of
fundamental differences between Christian and pagan visions of
virtue. Greatness of soul could not be appropriated whole cloth.
Instead, the great-souled man had to be baptized to conform with
Christian understandings of righteousness, compassion, and
humility. In this book, J. Warren Smith traces the development of
the ideal of the great-souled man from Plato and Aristotle to
latter adaptions by Cicero, Seneca, and Plutarch. He then examines
how Ambrose's and Augustine's theological commitments influenced
their different critiques, appropriations, and modifications of the
language of magnanimity.
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