is there a whole list of contra-affective Aristotelian virtues somewhere like courage is right action in the presence of fear, temperance is right action in the presence of anger, tolerance is right action in the presence of disgust
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Replying to @chaosprime
a lot of those don't really have words even for the virtue, and he says as much - like the ones around money (magnanimity?) and public spiritedness or some such also temperance there is more about pleasure & consumption as I recall.
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jeez didn't he know nobody likes anything unless it has a cool label
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this is all in the Nicomachean Ethics like
@PereGrimmer says. I reread it in February!1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
i'm pretty sure Ethics was Philosophy 201 at my school and that i took it, and one would imagine i'd have read it as part of that, but i honestly don't know one way or the other i guess cracking it open and seeing if it looks familiar might be a way of finding out
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