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Aristotle's Table of Virtues

The Means Between Extremes.

In my many conversations about duality I am always trying to explain what Aristotle has so aptly explained. Duality is a 'Yawist' concept (it goes back further than that but that's how we understand it today). Duality doesn't exist in Nature. We have categorized things into opposites but these categorizations or mostly arbitrary. I hope you enjoy seeing concepts in a non dualistic way.

Vice of Deficiency Virtuous Mean Vice of Excess
Cowardice Courage Rashness
Insensibility Temperance Intemperance
Illiberality Liberality Prodigality
Pettiness Munificence Vulgarity
Humble-mindedness High-mindedness Vaingloriness
Want of Ambition Right Ambition Over-ambition
Spiritlessness Good Temper Irascibility
Surliness Friendly Civility Obsequiousness
Ironical Depreciation Sincerity Boastfulness
Boorishness Wittiness Buffoonery
Shamelessness Modesty Bashfulness
Callousness Just Resentment Spitefulness