megalopsychos

== English == === Alternative forms === megalopsuchos, megalopsukhos, megalopsychus, megalopsykhos === Etymology === From the Ancient Greek μεγᾰλόψῡχος (megălópsūkhos, “great-souled man”, “magnanimous one”), from μεγᾰς (megăs, “great”) + ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “mind”, “spirit”, “soul”). === Noun === megalopsychos (plural megalopsychoi) (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). ==== Coordinate terms ==== (figure in Aristotelian philosophy): knight of faith (equivalent in Kierkegaardian philosophy), übermensch (equivalent in Nietzschean philosophy) ==== Related terms ==== megalopsychia megalopsychy ==== Translations ====