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Single Idea 21395
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean
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Full Idea
Zeno of Citium wrote a (lost) book entitled 'That Which is Appropriate'.
Gist of Idea
One of Zeno's books was 'That Which is Appropriate'
Source
report of Zeno (Citium) (fragments/reports [c.294 BCE]) by A.A. Long - Hellenistic Philosophy 4.1
Book Ref
Long,A.A.: 'Hellenistic Philosophy' [Duckworth 1986], p.113
A Reaction
I cite this because I take it to be about what in Aristotle called 'the mean' - to emphasise that the mean is not what is average, or midway between the extremes, but what is a balanced response to each situation
The
26 ideas
with the same theme
[virtues as appropriate route between evils]:
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7359
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Excess and deficiency are equally at fault
[Kongzi (Confucius)]
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20917
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Contentment comes from moderation and proportion in life
[Democritus, by Stobaeus]
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305
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Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them
[Plato]
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281
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The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean
[Plato]
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3545
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The mean implies that vices are opposed to one another, not to virtue
[Aristotle, by Annas]
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47
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Virtues are destroyed by the excess and preserved by the mean
[Aristotle]
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4406
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Aristotle aims at happiness by depressing emotions to a harmless mean
[Nietzsche on Aristotle]
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60
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The mean is relative to the individual (diet, for example)
[Aristotle]
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61
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Skills are only well performed if they observe the mean
[Aristotle]
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4388
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One drink a day is moderation, but very drunk once a week could exhibit the mean
[Urmson on Aristotle]
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4387
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In most normal situations it is not appropriate to have any feelings at all
[Urmson on Aristotle]
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62
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We must tune our feelings to be right in every way
[Aristotle]
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5159
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The mean is always right, and the extremes are always wrong
[Aristotle]
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65
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The vices to which we are most strongly pulled are most opposed to the mean
[Aristotle]
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5161
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To make one's anger exactly appropriate to a situation is very difficult
[Aristotle]
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5235
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Patient people are indignant, but only appropriately, as their reason prescribes
[Aristotle]
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5238
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The sincere man is praiseworthy, because truth is the mean between boasting and irony
[Aristotle]
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23914
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People sometimes exhibit both extremes together, but the mean is contrary to both of them
[Aristotle]
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2829
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The law is the mean
[Aristotle]
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21395
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One of Zeno's books was 'That Which is Appropriate'
[Zeno of Citium, by Long]
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3049
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The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice
[Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
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20848
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An appropriate action is one that can be defended, perhaps by its consistency.
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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7453
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Galen's medicine followed the mean; each illness was balanced by opposite treatment
[Galen, by Hacking]
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21417
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How do we distinguish a mean? The extremes can involve quite different maxims
[Kant]
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21420
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If virtue is the mean between vices, then virtue is just the vanishing of vice
[Kant]
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20372
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The instinct of the herd, the majority, aims for the mean, in the middle
[Nietzsche]
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