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: In Book III Chapter 10, Aristotle begins to tell us his views on temperance or self-control. He sees temperance to be the virtue of the non-rational part of human beings. He believes that temperance is a mean concerned with pleasures, for it is concerned less, and in a different way, with pains (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics III. 1117B25-30). He distinguish pleasures of the soul from those of the body. Pleasures of the soul would be love of honor and of learning. Those who are concerned with those pleasures are neither temperate nor intemperate. Non-bodily pleasures, lovers of tales and storytellers are called babblers, but not intemperate (Nicomachean Ethics III. 1117B). Temperance, is about bodily pleasures but not all of them (1118a).
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