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By philosophy, he seems to suggest not so much the
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capacity for abstract or speculative thought,
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but rather a kind of liberal education that he regards to be the
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preserve of what he calls by the term the "megalopsychos",
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literally, the great-souled person or the great-souled man.
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"Mega", "megalo", being our terms for great and
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"psychos", related to our word psyche, soul.
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The great-souled person, the great-souled man, the gentleman
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is, in many ways, for Aristotle,
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the ideal recipient of this form of education, of liberal
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education and also, in some respect,
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the ideal or perfect audience or readership of the book itself.