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absolute sense action activity admit affection appears Aristotle benefaction called censure CHAP CHAPTER character clear continence corrective justice courage defined desire effeminacy emotions equal equitable Eudemus Euripides evil exist faculty fear feel follows fortune friends friendship or love give happiness Harrow School Hence Heraclitus Hesiod highminded honour human ignorance Iliad illiberal implies impossible incontinent person intuitive reason involuntary justice kind knowledge Lacedaemonians liberal licentious live matters mean moral purpose moral virtue motive nature necessary nence ness NICOMACHEAN ETHICS noble object opinion particular passion perfect Philoctetes Plato pleasant pleasures and pains political possess praise premiss principle prodigal produced proper prudence recipient regard relation respect right reason sake seems Similarly Socrates soul speak subjects superior suppose syllogism temperate things timocracy tion true truth unjust vice vicious virtuous voluntarily voluntary wish words wrong καὶ τὸ
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Page xix - Jesus was the author and finisher of the faith; to which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be taken...
Page 143 - It follows therefore that justice involves at least four terms, namely, two persons for whom it is just and two shares which are just. And there will be the same equality between the shares as between the persons, since the ratio between the shares will be equal to the ratio between the persons; for if the persons are not equal, they will not have equal shares...
Page 153 - ... but money has become by convention a sort of representative of demand; and this is why it has the name 'money...
Page xxviii - The man, then, who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, and who feels confidence under the corresponding conditions, is brave...
Page 16 - ... activity of soul in accordance with virtue, or, if there are more virtues than one, in accordance with the best and most complete virtue. But we must add the words "in a complete life.
Page 55 - ... state; it is a mean state as lying between two vices, a vice of excess on the one side and a vice of deficiency on the other, and as aiming at the mean in the emotions and actions.
Page 69 - ... consider how and by what means it is to be attained; and if it seems to be produced by several means they consider by which it is most easily and best produced, while if it is achieved by one only they consider how it will be achieved by this and by what means this will be achieved, till they come to the first cause, which in the order of discovery is last.
Page 24 - ... speak the truth about him, because we do not wish to call the living happy in view of the vicissitudes to which they are liable and because we have formed a conception of happiness as something that is permanent and exempt from the possibility of change and because the same persons are liable to many revolutions of fortune. For it is clear that, if we follow the changes of fortune, we shall often call the same person happy at one time, and miserable at another, representing the happy man as "a...
Page 37 - The first point to be observed is, that in such matters as we are considering, deficiency and excess are equally fatal. It is so as we observe in regard to health and strength; for we must judge of what we cannot see by the evidence of what we do see. Excess or deficiency of gymnastic exercise is fatal to strength. Similarly, an excess or deficiency of meat and drink is fatal to health, whereas a suitable amount produces, augments, and sustains it. It is the same, then, with temperance, courage,...
Page 43 - ... similarly towards the other emotions. Now neither the virtues nor the vices are emotions; for we are not called good or evil in respect of our emotions but in respect of our virtues or vices. Again, we are not praised or blamed in respect of our emotions; a person is not praised for being afraid or being angry, nor blamed for being angry in an absolute sense, but only for being angry in a certain way; but we are praised or blamed in respect of our virtues or vices. Again, whereas we are angry...