Greatness of Soul [megalopsuchia] does is a virtue without a mean, it should be maximally strong, because is concerns the striving toward virtue and the honor...
Excessive anger is being irascible or harsh-tempered The mean is gentleness The defeciency of anger is inirascibility [aorgêsia] (the common name for the...
1026b11-1127a12 (Rackham) [1] In society and the common life and intercourse of conversation and business, some men are considered to be Obsequious; these are...
1127a13-1127b32: [1] The observance of the mean in relation to Boastfulness has to do with almost the same things. It also is without a name; but it will be as...
1127b33-1128b9: [1] But life also includes relaxation, and one form of relaxation is playful conversation. Here, too, we feel that there is a certain standard...
1128b10-35: [1] Modesty [=shame, aidôs] cannot properly be described as a virtue, for it seems to be a feeling [pathei] rather than a disposition [hexei]; ...
1129a3-1129b11 (Rackham/Perseus): I.[1] In regard to Justice and Injustice, we have to enquire what sort of actions precisely they are concerned with, in what...
1129b11-1030a13: I.[12] Again, we saw that the law-breaker is unjust and the law-abiding man just. It is therefore clear that all lawful things are just in one...
1130a14-1130b29: II.[1] What we are investigating, however, is the Justice which is a part of Virtue, since we hold that there is such a thing as Justice in...
... II.[9] but since the unfair is not the same as the unlawful, but different from it, and related to it as part to whole (for not everything unlawful is ...
1130b30-1131a29: II.[12] Particular [kata meros] Justice on the other hand, and that which is just in the sense corresponding to it, is divided into two kinds....
1131a29-1131b24: III.[8] Justice is therefore a sort of proportion [analogon]; for proportion is not a property of numerical quantity only, but of quantity in...
1131b25-a25: [1] The remaining kind is Corrective [diorthôtikon] Justice, which operates in private transactions, both voluntary and involuntary. [2] This...
1132a25-1132b20: [8] Now the judge restores equality: if we represent the matter by a line divided into two unequal parts, he takes away from the greater...
1132b21-1133a18: [1] The view is also held by some that simple Reciprocity [antipeponthos] is Justice. This was the doctrine of the Pythagoreans, who defined...
1133a19-1133b29: [10] Hence all commodities exchanged must be able to be compared in some way. It is to meet this requirement that men have introduced money;...
Aristotle defines two means: 1) for just actions (dikaiopragia): a mean between doing injustice (one person taking too much) and suffering injustice (another...
1134a17-1134b18: VI. But seeing that a man may commit injustice without actually being unjust, what is it that distinguishes those unjust acts the commission...
1134b18-1135a15: (Rackham) VII. Political Justice is of two kinds, one natural [phusikon], the other conventional [nomikon]. A rule of justice is natural that...
This sections repeats previous material on voluntary and involuntary actions, etc... 1135a15-1136a9: [1] Such being an account of just and unjust actions, it...
1136a10-1136b14: [1] But it may perhaps be doubted whether our discussion of suffering and doing injustice has been sufficiently definite; and in the first...
[First Aristotle deals with the importance of the origin of an unjust action in determining the guilty person. Th] [8] There still remain two of the questions...
[Equity, decency (Irwin), reasonableness (Rowe) is a subtype of justice that seems very much related to character, to a sense of fairness, to being attuned to...
XI. The foregoing discussion has indicated the answer to the question, Is it possible or not for a man to commit injustice against himself? (1) One class of...
I. We have already said that it is right to choose the mean and to avoid excess and deficiency,and that the mean is prescribed by the right principle. Let us...
a.. 6.1 ended with: "But the virtue of a faculty is related to the special function [ergon] which that faculty performs." b.. The next step is in 6.2 [3]:...
1139b14-1140a23: III. Let us then discuss these virtues afresh, going more deeply into the matter. Let it be assumed that there are five qualities through...
1140a24-1140b30: V. We may arrive at a definition of Prudence by considering who are the persons whom we call prudent. Now it is held to be the mark of a...
1140b31-1141a19: VI. Scientific Knowledge is a mode of conception dealing with universals [katholou] and things that are of necessity; and demonstrated truths...
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