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The Ethics of Aristotlesomething else should master him and drag him about like aslave. Socrates in fact contended generally against the theory,maintaining there is no such state as that of Imperfect Self-Control, for that no one acts contrary to what is best conceivingit to be best but by reason of ignorance what is best.With all due respect to Socrates, his account of the matteris at variance with plain facts, and we must inquire with respectto the affection, if it be caused by ignorance what is thenature of the ignorance: for that the man so failing does notsuppose his acts to be right before he is under the influenceof passion is quite plain.There are people who partly agree with Socrates and partlynot: that nothing can be stronger than Knowledge they agree,but that no man acts in contravention of his conviction ofwhat is better they do not agree; and so they say that it is notKnowledge, but only Opinion, which the man in questionhas and yet yields to the instigation of his pleasures.[Sidenote:1146a] But then, if it is Opinion and not Knowledge,that is it the opposing conception be not strong butonly mild (as in the case of real doubt), the not abiding by itin the face of strong lusts would be excusable: but wickednessis not excusable, nor is anything which deserves blame.Well then, is it Practical Wisdom which in this case offersopposition: for that is the strongest principle? The suppositionis absurd, for we shall have the same man uniting PracticalWisdom and Imperfect Self-Control, and surely no singleperson would maintain that it is consistent with the characterof Practical Wisdom to do voluntarily what is very wrong;and besides we have shown before that the very mark of aman of this character is aptitude to act, as distinguished frommere knowledge of what is right; because he is a man conversantwith particular details, and possessed of all the othervirtues.Again, if the having strong and bad lusts is necessary tothe idea of the man of Self-Control, this character cannot beidentical with the man of Perfected Self-Mastery, becausethe having strong desires or bad ones does not enter into theidea of this latter character: and yet the man of Self-Controlmust have such: for suppose them good; then the moral statewhich should hinder a man from following their suggestionsmust be bad, and so Self-Control would not be in all casesgood: suppose them on the other hand to be weak and not150
The Ethics of Aristotlewrong, it would be nothing grand; nor anything great, supposingthem to be wrong and weak.Again, if Self-Control makes a man apt to abide by all opinionswithout exception, it may be bad, as suppose the case ofa false opinion: and if Imperfect Self-Control makes a manapt to depart from all without exception, we shall have caseswhere it will be good; take that of Neoptolemus in thePhiloctetes of Sophocles, for instance: he is to be praised fornot abiding by what he was persuaded to by Ulysses, becausehe was pained at being guilty of falsehood.Or again, false sophistical reasoning presents a difficulty:for because men wish to prove paradoxes that they may becounted clever when they succeed, the reasoning that hasbeen used becomes a difficulty: for the intellect is fettered; aman being unwilling to abide by the conclusion because itdoes not please his judgment, but unable to advance becausehe cannot disentangle the web of sophistical reasoning.Or again, it is conceivable on this supposition that follyjoined with Imperfect Self-Control may turn out, in a givencase, goodness: for by reason of his imperfection of self-controla man acts in a way which contradicts his notions; nowhis notion is that what is really good is bad and ought not tobe done; and so he will eventually do what is good and notwhat is bad.Again, on the same supposition, the man who acting onconviction pursues and chooses things because they are pleasantmust be thought a better man than he who does so notby reason of a quasi-rational conviction but of Imperfect Self-Control: because he is more open to cure by reason of thepossibility of his receiving a contrary conviction. But to theman of Imperfect Self-Control would apply the proverb,“when water chokes, what should a man drink then?” forhad he never been convinced at all in respect of [Sidenote:1146b] what he does, then by a conviction in a contrarydirection he might have stopped in his course; but nowthough he has had convictions he notwithstanding actsagainst them.Again, if any and every thing is the object-matter of Imperfectand Perfect Self-Control, who is the man of ImperfectSelf-Control simply? because no one unites all cases ofit, and we commonly say that some men are so simply, notadding any particular thing in which they are so.151
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