The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-21-1985
Abstract
A straightforward application on the Doctrine of the Mean to the case of temperance, such as Aristotle offers in Eudemian Ethics III.2, does not do justice to the problems the virtue raises, problems that he sees clearly and effectively addresses in Nicomachean Ethics III.10-12.
Recommended Citation
Young, Charles, "Aristotle on Temperance" (1985). The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter. 125.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/sagp/125
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Notes
Charles Young presented “Aristotle on Temperance” at the meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco, March 21, 1985. A revised version was published in The Philosophical Review 97 (1988) 521-542. That version is available online on JSTOR. It was reprinted in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1991. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. IV: Aristotle’s Ethics. SUNY Press, 107-126, and again in Classical Philosophy: Collected Papers, ed. by T. Irwin, v. 5 (New York and London: Garland, 1995), 339-360.
For information about the author, see his page at: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4180.asp