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Mean between excess and deficiency
- Aristotle describes temperance as a mean between excess and deficiency, illustrating the Doctrine of the Mean. Practicing temperance leads to a more fulfilling life by promoting balance in desires and actions. Cultivating this virtue can enhance overall well-being and foster better relationships with others.
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volving deficiency, and temperance in between. Aristotle sometimes speaks as if he means to give an account of temperance as straightforward as this. In his preliminary sketches of the virtues in EN 11.7, for example, he says: Temperance is a mean state concerned with pleasures and pains,
After courage let us speak of temperance; for these seem to be the virtues of the irrational parts. We have said that temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures (for it is less, and not in the same way, concerned with pains); self-indulgence also is manifested in the same sphere.
Temperance is considered one of the cardinal virtues alongside justice, courage, and wisdom. It helps individuals resist excessive behaviors that can lead to harmful consequences. Aristotle describes temperance as a mean between excess and deficiency, illustrating the Doctrine of the Mean.
Jan 1, 2012 · Aristotle describes and defines a number of personal and interpersonal virtues: (1) temperance, or self-control in relation to physical pleasures and pains; (2) rational courage, the appropriate response in relation to situations involving fear; (3) rational generosity; (4) rational anger; (5) rational humor; (6) rational friendships; (7 ...
- Martha C. Beck
- martha.beck@lyon.edu
- 2012
Aristotle says that ‘temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures’ (NE 3.10, 1117b25) and specifies that the pleasures in question are of the body, not of the soul, and more particularly, they are the pleasures of touch.
And Aristotle does say explicitly that the target the temperate person looks to is the beautiful. (1119b, 15-17) But since there are three primary moral virtues, courage, temperance, and justice, it is surprising that in the whole of Book V, which discusses justice, Aristotle never mentions the beautiful.
Aristotle describes and defines a number of personal and interpersonal virtues: (1) temperance, or self-control in relation to physical pleasures and pains; (2) rational courage, the appropriate response in relation to situations involving fear; (3) rational generosity; (4) rational anger; (5) rational humor; (6) rational
