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Note by Heloise Tudor, created more than 1 year ago

A list of the character traits Aristotle considered to be virtues in his book Nichomachean Ethics, and their accompanying excess & deficiency vices.

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Aristotle's virtues (and their excess and deficiency vices)

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Excess vice - Mean - Deficiency vice

Rashness - Courage - Cowardice
Licentiousness - Temperance - Insensibility
Prodigality - Liberality - Illiberality
Vulgarity - Generosity - Pettiness
Vanity - Pride/High-mindedness - Humility
Over ambition - Proper ambition - Lack of ambition
Boastfulness - Truthfulness - Understatement
Irascibility - Patience - Lack of spirit
Buffoonery - Wittiness - Boorishness
Obsequiousness - Friendliness - Cantankerousness
Shyness/Bashfulness - Modesty - Shamelessness
Envy/Spitefulness - Righteous Indignation - Maliciousness/Callousness

Key:

Excess Vice = Red

Golden Mean = Orange

Deficiency Vice = Green

Virtues and their vices chart