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Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Organization of the Book -- Part I The Problem of Greatness and the Great-Souled Man from Plato to Plutarch -- 1 Greatness of Soul: The Perfection of Cl...
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New York
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, 2020
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| 520 | |a Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Organization of the Book -- Part I The Problem of Greatness and the Great-Souled Man from Plato to Plutarch -- 1 Greatness of Soul: The Perfection of Classical Virtue -- Aristotle and the Heroic Virtue -- Homer's Externalized Honor -- The Rehabilitation of Heroes -- Self-Sufficiency and the Noble Soul -- The Platonic Critique -- Glaucon and the Restraint of Ambition -- From Great to Good: Odysseus' Choice -- Conclusion -- 2 The Roman Ideal of Great-Souled Men -- Cicero: Ambition Redeemed -- Seneca: Magnitudo Animi and the Restraint of Power -- Plutarch's Magnanimous Lives -- Conclusion -- Part II Ambrose's Great-Souled Christians -- 3 Ambrose: Law, Gospel, and Exemplary Patriarchs -- Law and Gospel: Degrees of Imperfection -- Law Fulfilled in Love -- Spiritual Law and Higher Virtue -- Restoring the Faith of the Patriarchs -- Conclusion -- 4 Toward a Higher Standard of Greatness: Renarrating Perfection -- Claiming a Higher Moral High Ground -- Seneca and the Ideal of Imperial Mercy -- Justice, Compassion, and the Bonds of Fellowship -- The Magnanimous Compassion of Joseph -- Who Should Receive Mercy? -- Conclusion: Magnanimous Mercy Redefined -- 5 Humiliation without Shame or Resentment -- Phocion: Dishonoring a Great-Souled Man -- Toward a Psychology of Resentment -- David's Conscience -- Humility and Humiliation -- Great-Souled Humility: The Virtue of a Priest and Teacher -- Conclusion -- Part III Augustine and the Magnus Animus -- 6 Augustine: The ''Sublime Indifference'' of Greatness? -- Childhood Shame and Fears -- The Semantic Range of Magnus Animus -- Language and the Aspiration for Greatness -- Magnitudo Animi as Attachment to God -- Greatness of the Small-Souls -- Magnanimous Mercy. | ||
| 520 | |a Conclusion -- 7 The Witness of Death and the Witness of Conscience: Augustine and the Shaming of Roman Virtue -- Whose Crime? Whose Shame? -- Lucretia and the Witness of Death -- Magnitudo Animi or Infirmitas Mentis? -- Conscience: The Arbiter of Christian Self-Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The End of Virtue -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Ambrose of Milan -- Aristotle -- Augustine of Hippo -- Cicero -- Gregory of Nazianzus -- Homer -- Livy -- Philo of Alexandria -- Plato -- Plutarch -- Seneca -- Tacitus -- Virgil -- Secondary Sources -- Index. | ||
| 520 | |a Examines how Ambrose's and Augustine's theological commitments influenced their different critiques, appropriations, and modifications of virtue and greatness | ||
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