Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

What is the vice of meanness?

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Whereas prodigality is the vice of over-spending, meanness is the vice of hording—that is to say, the utter failure to give money at all. Meanness is not characteristic of the liberal person, then, because giving is a key component of the liberal person.

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Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book IV