Some Aristotelian Virtues and Vices (following Irwin’s translations)
Excess |
Mean (Virtue) |
Deficiency |
Concerning |
Rashness |
Bravery |
Cowardice |
Confidence in the face of danger |
Cowardice |
Bravery |
Nameless vice |
Fear |
Intemperance (self-indulgence) |
Temperance |
Insensibility |
Love of animal pleasures |
Wastefulness (extravagance) |
Generosity |
Ungenerosity (stinginess) |
Giving and getting wealth |
Indiscriminate or greedy taking |
Generosity |
Not taking what is due you |
Taking and keeping wealth |
Vulgarity (gaudiness) |
Magnificence |
Stinginess |
Suitable spending for feasts and ceremonies |
Vanity |
Magnanimity |
Pusillanimity (too little self regard) |
A sense of how much honor one deserves |
Love of honor |
Nameless virtue |
Indifference to honor |
Desire for honor (in small things) |
Irascibility |
Mildness |
Apathy |
Anger |
Obsequiousness |
(friendliness) |
quarrelsomeness |
Putting up with others in social situations |
Boastfulness or pretension |
Truthfulness |
Self-depreciation |
Estimation of one’s qualities |
Buffoonery |
Wit |
Boorishness |
Humorous sociability |
Some other possible virtues and vices
Panic, hysteria |
Caution |
Denial |
Care in the face of danger |
Servility |
Obedience |
Rebelliousness |
Doing as one is told by ‘superiors’ |
Promiscuity |
Chastity |
Prudishness |
Sexual desire |
Tactlessness |
Honesty |
Mendacity |
Telling the truth |
Sentimentality |
Compassion |
Callousness |
Concern for the welfare of others |
Lunacy, goofiness |
Creativity |
Stodginess, lack of imagination |
Ability/willingness to think outside of established patterns |