Conclusion: Incontinence is preferable to intemperance because the
incontinent can be cured because it is closer to virtue than intemperance
EP1: Incontinence is when someone takes into
account logical reasoning about what is good but chooses to go against it (100)
EP2: Incontinence and intemperance have the same range of actions
but an incontinent is not necessarily an intemperate
EP3: Intemperate acts on a
decision based on pleasure and no real reasoning behind it (102)
EP4: moderate pursuits of valor, wealth and
anger are considered incontinent, but excusable (105)
EP5: In anger a person listens to a little reason thus
is not a bodily desire like appetite (108)
IP1: Bodily desires like
appetite are not done out of reason
EP6: Incontinence from anger is better than
incontinence from hunger because a person in anger overcomes reason while the incontinent
in hunger is only overcome by hunger (108)
IP2: in general, reason must be superior to no reasoning
EP7: Virtue
is a principle that uses reasoning, vice is a principle that does not use reasoning
(111)
IP3: Since reason is superior to no
reasoning, virtue is superior to vice
IP4: Since an incontinent person uses reason and
the intemperate does not, the incontinent is more virtuous than the intemperate.
EP8: Since the Incontinent is more virtuous
than the intemperate, it is easier to cure an incontinent (111)
