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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...Koi avr Ka al npaeis K.t.x. It has either a moral aspect (marked by the characteristic (naiverov; on praise and blame, approbation and disapprobation, as characteristic of virtue and vice, see Introd. on eiraivos, Append. B, p. 212, seq.), what is right and noble, an end in itself, 81' avro; or is physical and sensual, what is beautiful, in which pleasure always accompanies that which is otherwise good. The ugly may be good in the sense of useful, but gives no pleasure. Virtue therefore must of necessity be tcaXov, because it comes under the first definition of it, it is good in itself, beneficial to the individual and to society, and also has the stamp and seal of general 'approbation'. § 4. apfrij The definition of virtue here given compared with the celebrated one of Eth. Nic. II 6, init., and the detailed treatment of the list of virtues and the meagre and incomplete account here given of them, contrasted with the elaborate and ingenious analysis of them in the third and fourth books of the same work, is a most striking illustration of the difference between the point of view and method of treatment in the popular Rhetoric and comparatively scientific Ethics. For example, the definition here given coincides in no single point with that of the Ethics. It regards virtue solely on the side of its usefulness, probably because this feature of it is likely to produce the greatest effect upon the popular mind. Instead of a cjis it is a mere hivapus, an undeveloped faculty or power--this is most expressly denied in Eth. N. 11 4,1106 a 5, imeu $vvctfii$, tJs So/ce?, 7roptTTiKt) ctyadwv nal (pvXaxTiKt, Kal Suvafxis evepyeTiKr 7rowu Kai fxeydXcov, 5 Ka/ 7rdvT(ov 7repl irdvTa. /uepr Be dperffi diKaiocrvvt, dvBpia, (ruXppoavvri, ixeyaXowpeweia, fxeyaXovla, 6 eX...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231133376
- ISBN 13 9781231133378
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages110
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