[3]
Nor
indeed does the unrestrained man even know the right in the sense of one who consciously
exercises his knowledge, but only as a man asleep or drunk can be said to know something.
Also, although he errs willingly (for he knows in a sense both what he is doing
and what end he is aiming at) , yet he is not wicked, for his moral choice is
sound, so that he is only half-wicked. And he is not unjust, for he does not deliberately
design to do harm,1 since the one type
of unrestrained person does not keep to the resolve he has formed after deliberation, and
the other, the excitable type, does not deliberate at all. In fact the unrestrained man resembles a state which passes all the
proper enactments, and has good laws, but which never keeps its laws: the condition of
things satirized by Anaxandrides— “
The state, that recks not of the laws, would fain . .
”
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1 Cf. 6.3.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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