Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
For The More Limited, If Adequate, Is Always Preferable.
-Aristotle
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
For The More Limited, If Adequate, Is
Aristotle
For The More Limited, If Adequate, Is Always Preferable.
Views: 13
Topic
Adequate
Ifs
More From Aristotle
Whereas Young People Become Accomplished In Geometry And Mathematics, And Wise Within These Limits, Prudent Young People Do Not Seem To Be Found. The Reason Is That Prudence Is Concerned With Particulars As Well As Universals, And Particulars Become Known From Experience, But A Young Person Lacks Experience, Since Some Length Of Time Is Needed To Produce It.
Wise
Knowledge
Learning
There Are, Then, Three States Of Mind ... Two Vices--that Of Excess, And That Of Defect; And One Virtue--the Mean; And All These Are In A Certain Sense Opposed To One Another; For The Extremes Are Not Only Opposed To The Mean, But Also To One Another; And The Mean Is Opposed To The Extremes.
Mean
Two
Mind
Human Beings Are Curious By Nature.
Educational
Curious
Humans
So Virtue Is A Purposive Disposition, Lying In A Mean That Is Relative To Us And Determined By A Rational Principle, And By That Which A Prudent Man Would Use To Determine It. It Is A Mean Between Two Kinds Of Vice, One Of Excess And The Other Of Deficiency.
Lying
Mean
Men
But The Virtues We Get By First Exercising Them, As Also Happens In The Case Of The Arts As Well. For The Things We Have To Learn Before We Can Do Them, We Learn By Doing Them, E.g. Men Become Builders By Building And Lyre Players By Playing The Lyre; So Too We Become Just By Doing Just Acts, Temperate By Doing Temperate Acts, Brave By Doing Brave Acts.
Art
Exercise
Men
Trending Author
Conrad Hilton
Robert H. Schuller
Don Hewitt
Pierre De Coubertin
Basil Hume
Oswald Mosley
Category
Information