Boorishness
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
boorish · boorishness · culture
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
The vice of deficiency in social amusement, opposed to Wittiness.
In respect of pleasantness and social amusement, the middle character is witty and the middle disposition Wittiness;
To Demonicus
The contrast between refined, cultivated conduct and boorish behavior that penalizes its own possessor.
Consider culture to be a good so far superior to the lack of culture that while in general everyone derives gain from the practice of vice, boorishness is the one vice which actually penalizes its possessors;
For just as we see the bee settling on all the flowers, and sipping the best from each, so also those who aspire to culture ought not to leave anything untasted, but should gather useful knowledge from every source.