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On an alleged inconsistency in the Nicomachean Ethics (IX,4)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

C. F. J. Martin
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow

Extract

But the attributes named seem to belong even to the majority of men, poor creatures though they may be. Are we to say then that in so far as they are satisfied with themselves and think they are good, they share in these attributes? Certainly no one who is thoroughly bad and impious has these attributes, or even seems to do so. They hardly belong even to inferior people; for they are at variance with themselves, and have appetites for some things and rational desires for others.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1990

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