αἱ ἀπολαυστικαί (ἀρεταί）] ‘those which contribute to the gratification or enjoyment of others rather than of ourselves, of which justice is an instance’. ἀπόλαυσις is not here confined to sensual gratification, its proper meaning. In Eth. N. I. 3, Sardanapalus, the type of sensuality, is taken as the representative of the βίος ἀπολαυστικός: note on 1 5. 7. Here again it is the unselfishness that is laudable.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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