Aristotle thought that there were two overriding sets of…

Page 40 Aristotle thought that there were two overriding sets of virtues, intellect and Mara. The intellectual virtues, he claimed, required by inheritance and education, the more ones through the imitation of practice and have it of those held in high regard, normally one’s parents. The highest virtual, according to Aristotle, was intellectual contemplation. Aristotle went to Liz 12 subs the dairy virtues courage, temperance, liberality, magnificence, Pride, honor, good temper, friendliness, truthfulness, wit, friendship, and justice. Too much courage becomes arrogance to little is timidity. Too much pride becomes boasting, too little it’s self demeaning and so on. You might like to score yourself against Aristotle‘s list from time to time.

— from The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy

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Aristotle gave us the most durable map of this: nearly every virtue is the mean between two extremes. Too much courage curdles into recklessness, too little into cowardice; too much pride becomes boasting, too little becomes a demeaning of yourself. He listed a dozen of them — courage, temperance, generosity, good temper, truthfulness, friendliness, justice — and it is no bad exercise to score yourself against that list from time to time. […] Too much courage curdles into recklessness, too little into cowardice; too much pride becomes boasting, too little becomes a demeaning of yourself. He listed a dozen of them — courage, temperance, generosity, good temper, truthfulness, friendliness, justice — and it is no bad exercise to score yourself against that list from time to time. Modern psychology maps the same terrain with five broad dimensions — openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, the OCEAN of personality — but do not read them as boxes you are trapped in: every trait is a spectrum, not a type, and your whole personality is less a label than a tapestry, an intricate weave in which every thread matters and no single one, pulled, unravels the rest. — The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)

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