Virtues of greatness in the Arabic tradition:
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| Abstract: | There are few ideals of character as distinctive and divisive as the ancient virtue of 'greatness of soul'. A larger-than-life virtue embodying nothing less than a vision of human greatness, it has often been seen as a relic of the Homeric world and its honour-loving heroes. In philosophy, it found its most celebrated expression in Aristotle's ethics, and it has lived on in the minds of philosophers and theologians in different forms ever since. Yet among the many lives this virtue has led in intellectual history, one remains conspicuously unwritten. This is the life it led in the Arabic tradition. A virtue of Greek warriors and their democratic epigones - what happened when this splendid virtue made landfall in the Islamic world? This world, too, had its native heroes, who bequeathed their conception of extraordinary virtue to posterity. Heroic virtue is above all expressed in a boundless aspiration to what is greatest. Could we admire such virtue enough to want it as our own? What can we learn from the Arabic tradition of the virtues? In answering these questions, Sophia Vasalou elucidates a larger family of virtues that are united by their preoccupation with all things great: the 'virtues of greatness'. An important constituent of the character ideals expounded within the Islamic world, this type of virtue tells us as much about the content of these ideals as about their kaleidoscopic genealogies |
| Umfang: | 169 Seiten 23 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgements Introduction vii 1 1. Greatness of Soul: The Reception of an Ancient Virtue Ancient Approaches: One Virtue, Many Configurations Arabic Approaches: Defining a Virtue The Ethics of Honour and Self-Esteem: Miskawayh The Ethics of Honour and Self-Esteem: Al-Ghazālī An Ethical Conflict and its Eclipse Concluding Remarks 13 13 18 27 30 47 62 2. Greatness of Spirit: The Transfiguration of Heroic Virtue Philosophical Handbooks: Aspiring to the Greatest Things Mirrors for Princes: A Virtue Fit for the Great The Genealogy of a Virtue Between Greek and Persian Ethics Pre-Islamic Arab Culture and the Virtues of Heroes Broader Perspectives 65 65 84 97 108 П8 Postlude: A Living Virtue? Situating Greatness of Spirit: A Second-Order Virtue? Emulation, Aspiration, Self-Reference Schematizing a Defence 131 134 139 147 Bibliography Index 157 167
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