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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham), Book 7, chapter 8 (search)
op to think and yet succumb; the impulsive man is not the typical unrestrained man. man is like people who get drunk quickly, and with a small amount of wine, or with less than most men. That Unrestraint is not strictly a vice (though it is perhaps vice in a sense), is clear; for Unrestraint acts against deliberate choice, Vice in accordance with it. But nevertheless in the actions that result from it it resembles Vice: just as Demodocus wrote of the people of Miletus— Milesians are no fools, 'tis true But yet they act as fools would do. Similarly the unrestrained are not unjust, but they do unjust things. Again,The argument is here resumed from 8.1. the unrestrained man is so constituted as to pursue bodily pleasures that are excessive and contrary to right principle without any belief that he ought to do so, whereas the profligate, because he is so constituted as to pursue them, is convinced that he<