Incontinence In Aristotle's Three States Of Virtue

In Book VII, Aristotle describes the three states of goodness, continence, virtue and superhuman virtue or the three states of badness, incontinence, vice and brutishness. Specifically, his first argument involves the concept of incontinence. What is incontinence? The continent person chooses to follow their conscience while the incontinent person allows something else to make that decision, ending up making a wrong decision. According to Socrates an individual can’t act against knowledge because when a man is incontinent, he is unaware of his wrongness since his moral weakness is affected by emotions and other factors which influence his knowledge. As a result, there can be incontinence in desire and in anger as such circumstances make a
As this world is composed of dualities, then the same pleasure can be good or bad depending on the context. For example: eating, taste is a sense of pleasure. But depending on what one eats and how much of it is what determines whether it is good or bad. Sex, if engaged for the purpose of procreation, is not bad, but if used only for indiscriminate enjoyment, then can be demeaning.This does not diminish the importance of other corrective observations of deviations that produce low or bad pleasures. Aristotle begins by noting that pleasure seems to be associated in a very intimate way to our own nature which explains, for example, how educators serve the concepts of pleasure and pain as basis to shaping children’s ethics. In this context, Aristotle, begs the question: covet life for the sake of pleasure or pleasure for the sake of life? According to Aristotle, one aspires to pleasure because of one’s desire to live, and since life is an activity and each person exercises in what he/she loves most, pleasure not only enhances the activity but life as well. Therefore, both life and pleasures share a link since there is no pleasure without activity, and pleasure perfects all