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from Polson High School <a href="http://www.flatheadreservation.org/index.php/phs"> Michael L. Umphrey website</a> <h2 class="title">Aristotle’s Virtues from Nichomachean Ethic</h2> By Michael L Umphrey <table width="90%" border="0" cellpadding="0" summary="adapted from J.A.K. Tomson"> <caption class="TableHeading"> Artistotle’s Nichomachean Ethics </caption> <tr> <td>Sphere of Action</td> <td>Excess</td> <td>Mean</td> <td>Deficiency</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Fear and Confidence </td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Rashness</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Courage</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Cowardice</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pleasure and Pain </td> <td> Licentiousness/Self-indulgence</td> <td> Temperance </td> <td> Insensibility</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Getting and Spending (minor) </td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Prodigality</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Liberality</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Illiberality/Meanness</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Getting and Spending (major) </td> <td> Vulgarity/Tastelessness</td> <td> Magnificence</td> <td> Pettiness/Niggardliness</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Honour and Dishonour (major)</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Vanity</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Magnanimity</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Pusillanimity</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Honour and Dishonour (minor)</td> <td> Ambition/empty vanity </td> <td>Proper ambition/pride</td> <td> Unambitiousness/undue humility</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Anger</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0"> Grouchiness</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0"> Patience</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0"> Lack of spirit</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Self-expression</td> <td> Boastfulness</td> <td> Truthfulness</td> <td> Understatement/mock modesty</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Conversation</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Buffoonery </td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0"> Wittiness</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Boorishness</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Social Conduct</td> <td> Obsequiousness</td> <td> Friendliness</td> <td> Cantankerousness</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Indignation</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Envry</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Righteous Indignation</td> <td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Maliciousness, Spitefulness</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shame</td> <td> Shyness</td> <td> Modesty</td> <td> Indignation</td> </tr> </table> Taken from p. 104 of translation by J.A.K. Tomson <a href="http://www.flatheadreservation.org/index.php/phs/aristotles_virtues/">Aristotle’s Virtues</a> sent from Michael L. Umphrey's website