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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (20591)8/4/2001 9:02:01 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The Magnanimous Man
According to Aristotle, a Magnanimous Man lives by the following ideals:

1) Honor:

The Magnanimous Man is chiefly concerned with honors and dishonors. He is moderately pleased with honors conferred on him by good men because he reckons that to be his due (or rather less than his due because no honor can be worthy or perfect virtue - yet he accepts such honors because people have nothing greater to give him). But he utterly despises honors from lightweight people that are given for trivial reasons, because he deserves better than that. He despises dishonors too, because in his case they cannot be just. Power and wealth are only desirable to him for the sake of honor. Even honor is a little thing to him, so everything else must be of even less importance. Consequently people think magnanimous men look down on everybody else.

2) Courage:

The Magnanimous Man does not run into trivial dangers but he will face great dangers. In danger he has no thought for his own life because he knows that there are conditions in which life is not worth having.

3) Obligations & Bearing Towards Others:

He is the kind of man that does things for other people but is ashamed to have things done for him because it puts him in an inferior position. Thus he tends to return an even greater favor than the first, so that he not only repays but puts the other person in a position of obligation to him. The Magnanimous Man asks for nothing but gives help readily. He stands on his dignity with high-class people but is relaxed with those of the middle class, because it is not only easy but bad mannered to be superior with inferior people. It is as bad as a strong person bullying a weak person. But it is a difficult and stately thing to be superior with superior people.

4) Frankness:

Also, he loves and hates openly because it is cowardly to hide your feelings or to care less for truth than for what people will think. He does not care what he says because all people are beneath him, and he always speaks the truth. He admires nothing because nothing to him is great. He never gossips or talks about himself or other people because he would prefer to hear neither good of himself nor bad of other people.

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