Unrestraint
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
incontinence · lack of self-restraint · Akrasia · bodily pleasures · pleasures that lie nearest · unrestrained · unrestrained man
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
A state of moral character in which a person acts against their better judgment under the influence of passion or desire.
Let us next begin a fresh part of the subject by laying down that the states of moral character to be avoided are of three kinds—Vice, Unrestraint, and Bestiality.
(A proof that unrestrained unqualified denotes unrestraint as regards bodily pleasures and pains, is that we speak of men as soft who yield to these, but not those who yield to anger or the like.
As therefore we do not call bad doctors and actors bad men, because neither kind of incapacity is actually a vice, but only resembles Vice by analogy, so in the former case it is clear that only self-restraint and lack of restraint in regard to the same things as are the objects of Temperance and Profligacy are to be deemed Self-restraint and Unrestraint proper, and that these terms are applied to …
Memorabilia
Vice of being ruled by bodily pleasures, preventing wisdom, prudence, right conduct, and true pleasure.
That though pleasure is the one and only goal to which incontinence is thought to lead men, she herself cannot bring them to it, whereas nothing produces pleasure so surely as self-control?
And is it not likely that self-control causes actions the opposite of those that are due to incontinence?
Socrates, said Euthydemus, I think you mean that he who is at the mercy of the bodily pleasures has no concern whatever with virtue in any form.