D’Amico Francesco Maria & Jan Pietryga

Created for PHIL 201-45 The Classical Mind

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Taught by Sister Elinor Gardner, O.P.
Used with permission
Revised by Dr. Jeffrey Wilson
March 26, A.D. 2010
Moral Vice & Virtue Chart
- gathered from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics -

MATTER DEFICIENCY VIRTUE EXCESS

(EMOTIONS) (MEAN)
Justice (enables men to Injustice
Human relations Injustice (unequal perform voluntary just (overcompensation in
distribution to one’s actions toward both distribution and
advantage) himself and the other) rectification)

Confidence Cowardice Courage Recklessness

Bodily
pleasures
Material goods whose
value is measured in money;
on a small scale
Material goods whose
value is measured in money;
on a large scale
Insensibility
Stinginess (exceed in
taking; deficient in giving)
Miserliness (fall short
in every aspect of
spending)
Self-control
Self-indulgence
(temperance)
Generosity Extravagance (exceed
(giving and taking in giving; deficient in
correctly) taking)
Magnificence
(spending large sums Gaudiness (exceed in
suited to the occasion) spending money; show off)

Honor Small-mindedness High-mindedness Vanity

(in great scale) (pusillanimity)
Lack of ambition
Honor (lacking in a proper
(in small/moderate scale) desire for honor)
Apathy (not showing
Anger anger at things that ought
to arouse anger)
Human relations (in Self-deprecation
terms of truth in speech, (understatement
action, and pretense) of actual qualities)
Human relations Grouchiness (to object
(in terms of pleasantness in at everything giving pain to
daily life) the fellow men)
(magnanimity)
No name (close to high-
mindedness; to desire
honor in the right degree)
Gentleness (term closer Short temper (quick to
to deficiency; to be rightly
angry in all aspects)
Truthfulness
(admittance of actual
qualities)
Friendliness (to put up
or not with right things in
the right manner)
(pride)
Ambition (exceeding in
the desire for honor)
anger; show anger wrongly
in all aspects)
Boastfulness
(pretense of non-actual
qualities)
Obsequiousness (give
pleasure; flattery if it looks
for material advantage)
 Human relations (in Boorishness (inability Wittiness (fun = good
terms of pleasantness in to say anything funny; take taste/versatile/tactful; to Buffoonery (exceed in
amusement) offense at everything) listen to things that benefit) being funny)
Human relations Friendship of utility ? (being too much
Perfect friendship
(involving objects worthy of or pleasure (between virtuous men)
attached to each other
affection between two people) (between “bad” men”) obsessively)
Fear of disrepute (mostly Shamelessness (acting Shame (not properly: Shamefulness (being
regarding emotions of the basely and remaining not shame is more an emotion ashamed and terror-
youth) ashamed of it) rather than a characteristic) stricken at everything)
Righteous
Fortunes of our Spite (feeling pleasure indignation (feeling Envy
neighbor (in terms of pain when someone suffers pain when someone (feeling exceeding pain
or pleasure we feel) undeservedly) prosper undeservedly) when someone prospers)