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.
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].
In respect of pleasures and pains—not all of them, and to a less degree in respect of pains —the observance of the mean is Temperance, the excess Profligacy.
On Virtues and Vices
The vice of the appetitive part, opposite of temperance
the vices of the appetitive part are licentiousness and lack of self-control;
Licentiousness is the vice of the appetitive part, by which they choose base pleasures.
It belongs to licentiousness to choose the enjoyment of harmful and shameful pleasures;