The Magnanimous Housewife

In the A.D. era, humility is the route to magnanimity.

The Magnanimous Housewife

Above: photograph of a woman holding a baby and doing laundry, c. 1919. National archives. The following reflection is for my sisters in Christ called to the married state. The magnanimous man in Aristotle’s Ethics is the man who “deems himself worthy of great things and is worthy of them.”[1] In other words, he knows that he’s pretty glorious. Since the classic understanding of…

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