Profligacy
idea · 2 works · 5 mentions · 15 anchored passages
profligate · licentiousness · profligate man · the profligate · wantonness
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
The vice of excess in respect of bodily pleasures, opposed to Temperance.
Similarly he that indulges in every pleasure and refrains from none turns out a profligate, and he that shuns all pleasure, as boorish persons do, becomes what may be called insensible.
but Profligacy, or excess of feeling, is more opposed to Temperance than is Insensibility, or lack of feeling.
For example, we are of ourselves more inclined to pleasure, which is why we are prone to Profligacy [more than to Propriety].
On Virtues and Vices
The vice of the appetitive part, opposite of temperance
Licentiousness is the vice of the appetitive part, by which they choose base pleasures.
the vices of the appetitive part are licentiousness and lack of self-control;
It belongs to licentiousness to choose the enjoyment of harmful and shameful pleasures;