Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

206 ARISTOTLE involved. Nor is he morally weak because of the mere fact of his relationship to these situations, [namely, that h ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 207 drunk. But this is precisely the condition of people who are in the grip of the emotions. Fits of ...

208 ARISTOTLE reasoning is not a universal and does not seem to be an object of scientific knowledge in the same way that a univ ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 209 and pains but not in the same way. Self-indulgent men pursue the excess by choice, but the morall ...

210 ARISTOTLE 25 30 *Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas in the second quarter of the sixth century B.C., was said to have built a hollo ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 211 active in sexual intercourse. Nor would we apply the term to persons in a morbid con- dition as a ...

212 ARISTOTLE house by his son asked him to stop at the door, on the grounds that he himself had not dragged his father any furt ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 213 appetites and pains. From all this it follows that a man is self-indulgent when he pursues excess ...

214 ARISTOTLE A man who loves amusement is also commonly regarded as being self-indulgent, but he is actually soft. For amusemen ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 215 principle or first premise. A man who has this right opinion is self-controlled, and his opposite ...

216 ARISTOTLE man remains steadfast and does not change on either account. Since moral strength is good, it follows that both ch ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 217 are morally weak by nature. For it is easier to change habit than to change nature. Even habit is ...

218 ARISTOTLE that (1) pleasure is not a good, or (3) that it is not the highest good. In the first place, [to answer argument ( ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKVII) 219 Nevertheless, the arts of perfume-making as well as of cooking are generally regarded as arts of ...

220 ARISTOTLE they do not even pursue the pleasure which they think or would say they pursue, but they all pursue the same [thin ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKX) 221 give them joy, and because of their nature, it is painful for them to feel neither [pleasure nor pa ...

222 ARISTOTLE nothing and is self-sufficient. Activities desirable in themselves are those from which we seek to derive nothing ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKX) 223 gives us our notions of what is noble and divine; whether it is itself divine or the most divine th ...

224 ARISTOTLE exercise of the other, [i.e., practical,] kind of virtue. So if it is true that intelligence is divine in comparis ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKX) 225 A further indication that complete happiness consists in some kind of contempla- tive activity is t ...