Name: Virtues and Vices
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Author: Aristotle

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Aristotle

Virtues and Vices

c. 3

The shortest thing in the library, and probably not by Aristotle: about 1,700 words that strip the whole Aristotelian virtue system down to a clean list of definitions. Eight virtues,…

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Aristotle Virtues and Vices Overview This is the smallest thing in the Ferrand Library by a wide margin: about 1,700 words, five short sections, readable in ten minutes. It is almost certainly not by Aristotle, and Kenny’s Introduction to the volume is briskly dismissive of it, calling it a trifle and noting that scarcely any scholar has ever thought it came from Aristotle’s own hand. So why is it on the shelf at its own card? Because it is a genuinely useful object, and its usefulness is exactly the thing…

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Accession:FL-0254

Published:c. 330 BC

Language:en

Shelved under:History, Politics

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