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man not to aim at the things commonly held in honour, or the things in which
others excel; to be sluggish and to hold back except where great honour or a
great work is at stake, and to be a man of few deeds, but of great and notable
ones. He must also be open in his hate and in his love (for to conceal one’s
feelings, i.e. to care less for truth than for what people will think, is a
coward’s part), and must speak and act openly; for he is free of speech
because he is contemptuous, and he is given to telling the truth, except when
he speaks in irony to the vulgar. He must be unable to make his life revolve
round another, unless it be a friend; for this is slavish, and for this reason all
flatterers are servile and people lacking in self-respect are flatterers. Nor is he
given to admiration; for nothing to him is great. Nor is he mindful of wrongs;
for it is not the part of a proud man to have a long memory, especially for
wrongs, but rather to overlook them. Nor is he a gossip; for he will speak
neither about himself nor about another, since he cares not to be praised nor
for others to be blamed; nor again is he given to praise; and for the same
reason he is not an evil-speaker, even about his enemies, except from
haughtiness. With regard to necessary or small matters he is least of all me
given to lamentation or the asking of favours; for it is the part of one who
takes such matters seriously to behave so with respect to them. He is one who
will possess beautiful and profitless things rather than profitable and useful
ones; for this is more proper to a character that suffices to itself.
Further, a slow step is thought proper to the proud man, a deep voice, and a
level utterance; for the man who takes few things seriously is not likely to be
hurried, nor the man who thinks nothing great to be excited, while a shrill
voice and a rapid gait are the results of hurry and excitement.
Such, then, is the proud man; the man who falls short of him is unduly
humble, and the man who goes beyond him is vain. Now even these are not
thought to be bad (for they are not malicious), but only mistaken. For the
unduly humble man, being worthy of good things, robs himself of what he
deserves, and to have something bad about him from the fact that he does not
think himself worthy of good things, and seems also not to know himself; else
he would have desired the things he was worthy of, since these were good.
Yet such people are not thought to be fools, but rather unduly retiring. Such a
reputation, however, seems actually to make them worse; for each class of
people aims at what corresponds to its worth, and these people stand back
even from noble actions and undertakings, deeming themselves unworthy, and
from external goods no less. Vain people, on the other hand, are fools and
ignorant of themselves, and that manifestly; for, not being worthy of them,
they attempt honourable undertakings, and then are found out; and tetadorn
themselves with clothing and outward show and such things, and wish their
strokes of good fortune to be made public, and speak about them as if they
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The Complete Aristotle
- Titel
- The Complete Aristotle
- Autor
- Aristotle
- Datum
- ~322 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
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- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156