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N ICOM A CH EA N E T H ICS
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B O O K I V
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LET us speak next of liberality .It seems to be the mean with
regard to wealth ; for the liberal man is praised not in respect of
military matters, nor of those in respect of which the temrate
man is praised, nor of j udicial decisions, but with regard to the
giving and taking of wealth, and especially in respect of giving .
Now by wealth we mean all the things whose value is measured
by money . Further, prodigality and meanness are excesses and
defects with regard to wealth ; and meanness we always impute to
those who care more than they ought for wealth, but we some-
times apply the word prodigality in a complex sense ; for we call
those men prodigals who are incontinent and spend money on self
- indulgence .Hence also they are thought the poorest charac-
ters ; for they combine more vices than one .Therefore the appli-
尼各马科伦理学
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cation of the word to them is not its proper use ; for a prodigal
means a man who has a single evil quality, that of wasting his
substance ; since a prodigal is one who is being ruined by his own
fault, and the wasting of substance is thought to be a sort of rui-
ning of oneself, life being held to depend on possession of sub-
stance .
This, then, is the sense in which we take the wordprodigali-
ty.Now the things that have a use may be used either well or
badly ; and riches is a useful thing ; and everything is used best by
the man who has the virtue concerned with it ; riches, therefore,
will be used best by the man who has the virtue concerned with
wealth ; and this is the liberal man . Now spending and giving
seem to be the using of wealth ; taking
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