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  • noun Alternative form of epikeia.

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  • This is an application of Aristotle's notion of epieikeia

    Medieval Political Philosophy Kilcullen, John 2006

  • Macrobius; and equity under _epieikeia_ or under _friendship.

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • Obj. 5: Further, Aristotle (Ethic. v, 10) mentions _epieikeia_ as being annexed to justice: and yet seemingly it is not included in any of the foregoing enumerations.

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • [Greek: epieikeia], which was perhaps not always so obvious when he came to preach that quality itself later.

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

  • Nor is it difficult to observe in the shy philosopher a temperament which must have commended itself to Mr Arnold almost as strongly as his literary quality, and very closely indeed connected with that -- the temperament of equity, of _epieikeia_, of freedom from swagger and brag and self-assertion.

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

  • The example of moderation presented to me by my clerical critic does not seem to me very edifying, his impartiality does not appear to be beyond reproach, and in his tone I fail to recognise any of the [Greek: epieikeia] which Mr. Matthew Arnold so justly admires.

    A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays Walter R. Cassels 1866

  • There is a want of equitableness and fairness in his stern and sometimes cruel condemnations; and yet not religion only, but the wisest wisdom of the world tells of the indispensable value of this equitableness, this old Greek virtue of [Greek: epieikeia], in our views of men and things.

    Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852

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