Self-indulgence more voluntary than cowardice: comparison of the self-indulgent man to the spoilt child. Self-indulgence is more like a voluntary state than cowardice. For the former is actuated by pleasure, the latter by pain, of which the one is to be chosen and the other to be avoided; and pain upsets and destroys the nature of the person ...

The man who is incontinent in the unqualified sense is neither concerned with any and every object, but with precisely those with which the self-indulgent man is concerned, nor is he characterized by being simply related to these (for then his state would be the same as self-indulgence), but by being related to them in a certain way.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant, and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else; hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is merely craving for them (for appetite involves pain); but it seems absurd to be pained for the sake of pleasure.

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The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant, and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else; hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is merely craving for them (for appetite involves pain); but it seems absurd to be pained for the sake of pleasure.

“The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

Self-indulgence more voluntary than cowardice: comparison of the self-indulgent man to the spoilt child. Self-indulgence is more like a voluntary state than cowardice. For the former is actuated by pleasure, the latter by pain, of which the one is to be chosen and the other to be avoided; and pain upsets and destroys the nature of the person ...

Self-indulgence worse than incontinence. The self-indulgent man, as was said, is not apt to repent; for he stands by his choice; but incontinent man is likely to repent.

Self-indulgence worse than incontinence. The self-indulgent man, as was said, is not apt to repent; for he stands by his choice; but incontinent man is likely to repent.

Now we may ask (1) how a man who judges rightly can behave incontinently. That he should behave so when he has knowledge, some say is impossible; for it would be strange-so Socrates thought-if when knowledge was in a man something else could master it …