Full Idea
There are three kinds of states of character to be avoided: vice, 'akrasia' and brutishness.
Clarification
'akrasia' is weakness of will (incontinence, lack of control)
Gist of Idea
The three states of character to avoid are vice, 'akrasia' and brutishness
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1145a16)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.226
A Reaction
The three are distinguished by the state of their reason: vice exhibits bad reason, akrasia exhibits right reason (but no control), and brutishness exhibits an absence of reason. A good distinction, which should be used to judge criminals.