With this third reading (of chapters vii–x) in Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics, we complete the discussion of continence and incontinence, hardness and softness. An explicit notice at the end of chapter x tells us so.

Gulls are not perching birds, but evidently are able to balance on a cable, if it is thick enough and still enough.
Kireçburnu, Wednesday, January 17, 2024