Book III
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Book III of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the section in which he analyzes moral responsibility, voluntary and involuntary action, and the nature of courage and temperance as key virtues.
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| Book III canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Book III Context triple: [Nicomachean Ethics, dividedInto, Book III]
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Book III
Book III is the section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political treatise *The Social Contract* that focuses on the nature, forms, and functioning of government in relation to the sovereign people.
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Book III
Book III is the section of John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" that focuses on the nature, use, and limitations of language in human knowledge.
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Book III
Book III is one of the sections of Nicolaus Copernicus’s seminal astronomical work *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium*, which laid the foundations of the heliocentric model of the solar system.
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Book III
Book III is the final section of Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, in which he applies his laws of motion and universal gravitation to explain the motions of celestial bodies and the structure of the solar system.
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Book III
Book III is a component section of the Power Architecture specification that defines part of the architecture’s operational and programming model.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book III Target entity description: Book III of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the section in which he analyzes moral responsibility, voluntary and involuntary action, and the nature of courage and temperance as key virtues.
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Book III
Book III is the concluding section of Hugo Grotius’s seminal work "De iure belli ac pacis," in which he systematically examines the conduct of war and the restoration of peace within the framework of natural and international law.
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Book III
Book III is the third section of Augustine’s theological treatise *On Christian Doctrine*, focusing on the principles for interpreting ambiguous or figurative passages of Scripture.
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Book III
Book III is a section of Augustine’s monumental Christian philosophical work *The City of God*, continuing his critique of pagan beliefs and interpretation of Roman history.
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Book III
Book III is the section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political treatise *The Social Contract* that focuses on the nature, forms, and functioning of government in relation to the sovereign people.
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Book III
Book III is the section of John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" that focuses on the nature, use, and limitations of language in human knowledge.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book section
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philosophical text ⓘ |
| analyzes |
conditions of involuntary action
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conditions of voluntary action ⓘ |
| argues |
that choice concerns means to ends rather than ends themselves
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that deliberation is about things within our power ⓘ |
| author | Aristotle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composedIn | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| contrasts | temperance with insensibility ⓘ |
| criticizes | self-indulgence ⓘ |
| defines |
involuntary actions as those done through force or ignorance
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voluntary actions as those whose principle is in the agent with knowledge of particulars ⓘ |
| discusses |
choice (prohairesis)
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civic courage ⓘ courage from compulsion ⓘ courage from experience ⓘ courage from ignorance of danger ⓘ courage from spirit or passion ⓘ deliberation ⓘ pleasures of touch and taste ⓘ wish (boulesis) ⓘ |
| distinguishes |
ignorance of particulars from ignorance of universals
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true courage from cowardice ⓘ true courage from rashness ⓘ |
| examines |
actions done under compulsion
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actions done under fear ⓘ mixed actions ⓘ responsibility for actions done in ignorance ⓘ |
| follows | Book II (Nicomachean Ethics) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSectionNumbering | Nicomachean Ethics III.1–III.12 (traditional division) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influences |
later discussions of moral responsibility
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later theories of free will ⓘ |
| locatedIn | middle books of the Nicomachean Ethics ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
courage
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involuntary action ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ temperance ⓘ voluntary action ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | Nicomachean Ethics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedes | Book IV (Nicomachean Ethics) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presents |
courage as a mean with respect to fear and confidence
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temperance as a mean with respect to bodily pleasures ⓘ |
| situates |
courage among the moral virtues
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temperance among the moral virtues ⓘ |
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