Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics explores many virtues. The first two virtues Aristotle examines in the ethics are Courage and Temperance, sometimes translated as Bravery and Moderation. Aristotle's account of Bravery or Courage is important for us because it seems to be about our relationship to pain. Just so, his discussion of Temperance or Moderation says something about our relationship to pleasure. Aristotle seems to be suggesting that managing our responses to pleasure and pain matters a great deal to our happiness and achieving our human telos.

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