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- Within Aristotle’s ethical theory, continence or self-control (ἐγκράτεια) is the good but neglected sister of incontinence or lack of self-control (ἀκρασία).
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Aristotle's Definition of Incontinence. When Aristotle gives his account of incontinence, he takes into consideration the man who acts against his own judgment. He is not trying to prove that incontinence is possible, only how incontinence can occur.
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But for Aristotle, the field of incontinence strictly speaking is much narrower than these remarks imply. It is the field constituted by normal physical pleasures and pains (1147 b 20–1148 a 14). Thus the corresponding virtue is temperance, the main corresponding vice intemperance.
Within Aristotle’s ethical theory, continence or self-control (ἐγκράτεια) is the good but neglected sister of incontinence or lack of self-control (ἀκρασία). Incontinence must be the most discussed of all subsidiary topics within his ethics.
Feb 6, 2019 · Aristotle distinguishes two kinds of virtue: “those that pertain to the part of the soul that engages in reasoning (virtues of mind or intellect), and those that pertain to the part of the soul that cannot itself reason but is nonetheless capable of following reason (ethical virtues, virtues of character).”.
This chapter describes the sphere of temperance and Aristotle’s distinctions among temperance, intemperance, continence, incontinence, and three varieties of brutishness. A four-target, twelve-parameter model of temperance is proposed.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, VII: 1–3 Continence and Incontinence: Continence is not virtue, and incontinence is not vice. But they are related (they belong to the same “genus”). • The vicious person thinks he ought to do the bad things, follows through, and enjoys it.
Aristotle calls such individuals "continent" (enkrates) and he distinguishes them from the fully virtuous. Their distinctive characteristic is that they struggle inside, but they end up doing the morally right thing.
