Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach

1. Fear of important damages, esp. death                                                       courage

2. Bodily appetites and their pleasures                                                                       moderation

3. Distribution of limited resources                                                                justice

4. Management of one’s personal property, where others are concerned                   generosity

5. Management of personal property, where expansive hospitality is concerned hospitality

6. Attitudes and actions with respect to one’s own worth                             greatness of soul

7. Attitude to slights and damages                                                                 mildness of temper

8. “Association and living together and the fellowship of words and actions”

            a. truthfulness in speech                                                                      truthfulness

            b. social association of a playful kind                                                 easy grace (contrasted                                                                                                                                     with coarseness,                                                                                                                                  rudeness, insensitivity)

            c. social association more generally                                                    nameless, but a kind of                                                                                                                                   friendliness (contrasted                                                                                                                       with irritability and                                                                                                                             grumpiness)

9. Attitude to the good and ill fortune of others                                                        proper judgment                                                                                                                                  (contrasted with                                                                                                                                  enviousness,                                                                                                                                        spitefulness, etc.)