ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS: Table of Virtues and Vices
19 March, 2000
Author: George Irbe
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ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS /TABLE OF VIRTUES AND VICES
SPHERE OF ACTION
OR FEELING
Fear and Confidence
EXCESS
MEAN
DEFICIENCY
Rashness
Licentiousness/Selfindulgence
Courage
Cowardice
Temperance
Insensibility
Prodigality
Liberality
Illiberality/Meanness
Vulgarity/Tastelessness
Magnificence
Pettiness/Niggardliness
Vanity
Magnanimity
Pusillanimity
Ambition/empty vanity
Proper ambition/pride
Anger
Irascibility
Patience/Good temper
Self-expression
Boastfulness
Truthfulness
Conversation
Social Conduct
Shame
Buffoonery
Obsequiousness
Shyness
Wittiness
Friendliness
Modesty
Indignation
Envy
Righteous indignation
Pleasure and Pain
Getting and Spending
(minor)
Getting and Spending
(major)
Honour and Dishonour
(major)
Honour and Dishonour
(minor)
Unambitiousness/undue
humility
Lack of
spirit/unirascibility
Understatement/mock
modesty
Boorishness
Cantankerousness
Shamelessness
Malicious
enjoyment/Spitefulness
Taken from p. 104 of translation by J.A.K. Tomson
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