Word: nicomachean
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...notions of honor and character to most Harvard students sound old-fashioned, if not completely absurd. Yet, at one point, such concerns formed the center of a truly moral education. Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics listed “greatness of soul,” or “magnanimity,” among the principal moral virtues—as the “crown” of the virtues, in fact, without which the other moral virtues cannot properly exist. For one who exemplifies all the moral virtues—an ideal toward which men of a previous...
...bushel of spilt chestnuts. A collar, studded with amethysts and other gems of some mysterious allegorical import, encircled the creature’s neck; it read, “Tatiana.” One paw lay upon an elaborately bound volume: Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics.” Setting down his brush for a moment, Jacques approached the tableau. He set a bronze sextant at The Stable Boy’s right foot. Then, after a moment’s consideration, he replaced the pomegranate with half a melon. “What the hell...