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    It is not the case that Excess should be avoided because it leads one away from the path of virtue.

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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of the mean locates virtue not at a fixed moderate point but at the contextually appropriate response, which sometimes demands excess by ordinary standards.
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    • 2.Courage in battle, righteous anger at injustice, and magnanimity in great souls require intensities that superficially appear excessive but constitute virtuous extremity.
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    • 3.A universal prohibition on excess conflates the mean relative to us with an arithmetic mean, committing precisely the error Aristotle warned against in Nicomachean Ethics II.6.
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    • 1.Nietzsche argues in 'Beyond Good and Evil' that the morality of moderation is a slavish constraint that prevents the exceptional individual from realizing genuinely great virtue.
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    • 2.If certain virtues like creative excellence or heroic self-overcoming require transgressing conventional limits, then excess relative to common standards is constitutive of those virtues, not a departure from them.
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    • 1.Abandoning cautious moderation is itself an incautious withdrawal from the path of virtue.
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    • 2.That which is excessive causes one to depart from virtue.
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