Middle Platonist resolution. can a materialist have the same abstract limit and order (of ethical virtues)?
In his essay On Moral Virtue Plutarch states that moral virtue has the emotions as its matter and reason as its form. The ideal of metriopatheia is described as follows: For reason does not wish to eradicate passion completely (this is neither possible nor profitable), but imposes a limit and an order upon it and implants the ethical virtues which are not free from passion but bring due proportion and measure therein. (443c, trans. W. C. Helmbold, with changes) 223
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