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preserved. And contrary to him is another kind of man, he who abides by his
convictions and is not carried away, at least as a result of passion. It is evident
from these considerations that the latter is a good state and the former a bad
one.
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Is the man continent who abides by any and every rule and any and every
choice, or the man who abides by the right choice, and is he incontinent who
abandons any and every choice and any and every rule, or he who abandons
the rule that is not false and the choice that is right; this is how we put it
before in our statement of the problem. Or is it incidentally any and every
choice but per se the true rule and the right choice by which the one abides
and the other does not? If any one chooses or pursues this for the sake of that,
per se he pursues and chooses the latter, but incidentally the former. But when
we speak without qualification we mean what is per se. Therefore in a sense
the one abides by, and the other abandons, any and every opinion; but without
qualification, the true opinion.
There are some who are apt to abide by their opinion, who are called
strong-headed, viz. those who are hard to persuade in the first instance and are
not easily persuaded to change; these have in them something like the
continent man, as the prodigal is in a way like the liberal man and the rash
man like the confident man; but they are different in many respects. For it is
to passion and appetite that the one will not yield, since on occasion the
continent man will be easy to persuade; but it is to argument that the others
refuse to yield, for they do form appetites and many of them are led by their
pleasures. Now the people who are strong-headed are the opinionated, the
ignorant, and the boorish-the opinionated being influenced by pleasure and
pain; for they delight in the victory they gain if they are not persuaded to
change, and are pained if their decisions become null and void as decrees
sometimes do; so that they are liker the incontinent than the continent man.
But there are some who fail to abide by their resolutions, not as a result of
incontinence, e.g. Neoptolemus in Sophocles’ Philoctetes; yet it was for the
sake of pleasure that he did not stand fast-but a noble pleasure; for telling the
truth was noble to him, but he had been persuaded by Odysseus to tell the lie.
For not every one who does anything for the sake of pleasure is either self-
indulgent or bad or incontinent, but he who does it for a disgraceful pleasure.
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The Complete Aristotle
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- ~322 B.C.
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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