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    Good and evil do not pertain to the second and third species of quality (disposition and passion/movement)

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    • 1.The second and third species of quality concern whether actions or passions are done with ease or difficulty, and whether they are transitory or lasting
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    • 2.Good and evil are said in respect of an end
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    • 3.Movements and passions do not have the aspect of an end
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    • 1.Aristotle himself in the Nicomachean Ethics treats passions (pathē) as subject to moral evaluation when they occur in excess or deficiency.
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    • 2.If passions like anger or fear admit of virtuous and vicious expression, they bear directly on good and evil regardless of their transitory character.
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    • 3.The ease or difficulty with which one experiences passions constitutes the very subject matter of virtue and vice for Aristotle, linking species two and three to moral quality.
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    • 1.Stoic moral psychology, influential in later Aristotelian commentary, treats passions (pathē) as themselves the primary locus of moral evaluation, not merely instruments toward ends.
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    • 2.If passions are constitutively good or evil rather than instrumentally so, the premise that good and evil require reference to an end is itself contestable within the broader ancient tradition.
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    But the mode of determination of the subject, in regard to action or passion, is considered in the second and third species of quality. And therefore in both, we take into account whether a thing be done with ease or difficulty; whether it be transitory or lasting. But in them, we do not consider anything pertaining to the notion of good or evil: because movements and passions have not the aspect of an end, whereas good and evil are said in respect of an end.
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