Aristotelian Virtue: Magnificence
The virtue of magnificence revolves around the generosity of expense, its significance, and its level of display. The magnificent person spends his money in the right places and for the right causes or right people (Aristotle 54). Aristotle says “Magnificence is expenditure that is fitting [prepousa] in its large scale [megethos]” (Aristotle 54). In this, he is not saying that spending large sums of money makes one magnificent, rather one only obtains this virtue by spending money suitably based on the value of the cause, therefore making it “worthy of the expense” (Aristotle 55). In other words, spending selfishly or without purpose is not magnificent. He describes the scale in which magnificence becomes the
