Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
chapter:
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
View text chunked by:
- bekker page : bekker line
- book : chapter : section
Table of Contents:
[6]
Also Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of man's proper
function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the
rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
（The fourth part1 of the soul on the other hand, the nutritive faculty, has no virtue
contributing to the proper function of man, since it has no power to act or not to
act.2）
1 The other three are the scientific, calculative, and appetitive parts, see 1.5,6, whose virtues have now been considered in Books 2-6. Sensation is here omitted, since it is not peculiar to man: cf. 1.7.12.
2 Digestion and growth function automatically, not voluntarily; so they form no part of conduct.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
show
Browse Bar
hide
Places (automatically extracted)
View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.
Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.
hide
Search
hideStable Identifiers
hide
Display Preferences