RT Article
T1 Liberating Moral Traditions: Saga Morality and Aristotle's Megalopsychia
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 1
IS 4
SP 397
OP 422
A1 Kristjánsson, Kristján
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 1998
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785691074
AB It is a matter for both surprise and disappointment that so little has been written from a philosophical perspective about the moral tradition enshrined in Europe's oldest living literature, the Icelandic sagas. The main purpose of the present essay is to start to ameliorate this shortcoming by analysing and assessing the moral code bequeathed to us by the saga literature. To do so, I draw attention to the striking similarities between saga morality and what tends to be called an 'ancient moral outlook' (with special reference to Aristotle's much-maligned virtue of megalopsychia) and then try to defend the credentials of both outlooks in so far as they clash, or seem to clash, with certain aspects of a 'modern moral outlook.'
K1 Shame
K1 Modern
K1 morality: ancient
K1 Moral Luck
K1 Icelandic sagas
K1 Humility
K1 Aristotle's megalopsychia
DO 10.1023/A:1009990801822