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consider unimportant, and it is just such things that you slight. (2) Spite is
another kind; it is a thwarting another man’s wishes, not to get something
yourself but to prevent his getting it. The slight arises just from the fact that
you do not aim at something for yourself: clearly you do not think that he can
do you harm, for then you would be afraid of him instead of slighting him,
nor yet that he can do you any good worth mentioning, for then you would be
anxious to make friends with him. (3) Insolence is also a form of slighting,
since it consists in doing and saying things that cause shame to the victim, not
in order that anything may happen to yourself, or because anything has
happened to yourself, but simply for the pleasure involved. (Retaliation is not
‘insolence’, but vengeance.) The cause of the pleasure thus enjoyed by the
insolent man is that he thinks himself greatly superior to others when ill-
treating them. That is why youths and rich men are insolent; they think
themselves superior when they show insolence. One sort of insolence is to rob
people of the honour due to them; you certainly slight them thus; for it is the
unimportant, for good or evil, that has no honour paid to it. So Achilles says
in anger:
He hath taken my prize for himself
and hath done me dishonour,
and
Like an alien honoured by none,
meaning that this is why he is angry. A man expects to be specially
respected by his inferiors in birth, in capacity, in goodness, and generally in
anything in which he is much their superior: as where money is concerned a
wealthy man looks for respect from a poor man; where speaking is concerned,
the man with a turn for oratory looks for respect from one who cannot speak;
the ruler demands the respect of the ruled, and the man who thinks he ought
to be a ruler demands the respect of the man whom he thinks he ought to be
ruling. Hence it has been said
Great is the wrath of kings, whose father is Zeus almighty,
and
Yea, but his rancour abideth long afterward also,
their great resentment being due to their great superiority. Then again a
man looks for respect from those who he thinks owe him good treatment, and
these are the people whom he has treated or is treating well, or means or has
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- Title
- The Complete Aristotle
- Author
- Aristotle
- Date
- ~322 B.C.
- Language
- English
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- Pages
- 2328
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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Table of contents
- 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