On Aristotle's Continence

Continence is an important conception in Aristotle′s ethics. Aristotle held that continence is a moderate disposition between the virtue and the vice,and it acts as a transition for man to reach the virtue. He studied the difference and puzzle between continence, incontinence and temperance in terms of his own moral philosophy, and treated continence and incontinence as a pair of middle character. He argued that they are indeed not the same as virtue and vice, but not fundamentally different. He solved the problem of continence and incontinence in analyzing knowledge, and emphasized he active relations between continence on the one hand, and human reason and the right logos on the other. He ultimately interpreted that continence is a good character which could make us achieve the virtue of temperance by habit.Continence is a moral state that it always be neglected, but it is very important. The writer explores the quality related to person's psychological will, and continence's importance in active to behavior and in practice. And then, the author elaborates and analyzes Aristotle's ethical thoughts on continence from knowledge perspective. And then combine choice of voluntary actions and relative to moral virtues.