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- 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,
Aristotle on the Virtue of Temperance. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book III, 10-11. 10. 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 ...
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.
Jul 17, 2022 · Aristotle begins his analysis of temperance in the Nicomachean Ethics by noting that it is a means (mesotēs) bearing upon pleasures (peri hēdonas).
- Gregory Sadler
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.
May 1, 2001 · Like Plato, he regards the ethical virtues (justice, courage, temperance and so on) as complex rational, emotional and social skills. But he rejects Plato’s idea that to be completely virtuous one must acquire, through a training in the sciences, mathematics, and philosophy, an understanding of what goodness is.
The person who is always fighting the same battle, always struggling like the sheep dog to maintain the balance point between too much and too little indulgence, does not, according to Aristotle, have the virtue of temperance, but is at best selfrestrained or continent. In that case, the reasoning part of the soul is keeping the impulses reined in.
