Reflections on human vices: deviations from moral balance that corrupt virtues and lead man away from his true fulfilment.
After dealing with liberality, Aristotle addresses in Book IV of the Nicomachean Ethics the virtue of magnificence (megaloprépeia). This virtue is also related to wealth, but not to any use of it; rather, only to great expenditures.
In Book IV of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle presents the concept of liberality as the just mean in the use of wealth. Unlike other virtues connected to the body or to justice, it relates to giving and receiving material goods, above all giving, which is the noblest use of wealth.
