Some
Aristotelian Virtues and Vices (following
Irwin’s translations)
Excess |
Mean
(Virtue) |
Deficiency |
Concerning |
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Rashness |
Bravery |
Cowardice |
Confidence in
the face of danger |
Cowardice |
Bravery |
Nameless
vice |
Fear |
Intemperance
(self-indulgence) |
Temperance
(self-control) |
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 expenditure 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 |
Ingratiatingness
(obsequiousness) |
Nameless virtue
(friendliness) |
Cantankerousness
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 |