ABSTRACT
There is no doubt at all that, in the composition of his treatise On Arrogance, Philodemus borrows heavily from Aristo. This chapter talks about Aristo's views in the broader context of a systematic exploration of the vice. It sketches out the steps of the analysis of arrogance proposed by Philodemus' treatise and shows where and why the references to Aristo's work are philosophically apposite. The chapter discusses Aristo's concept of blends and focuses on the relation between arrogance and other vicious characteristics in each blend and outlines its formal structure. Itargues that Aristo's analysis of certain types of arrogance in terms of vicious blends contains plausible intuitions and is of considerable philosophical interest in its own right. The chapter concludes that the Peripatetic philosopher gives us a better understanding of the reasons why arrogance is a fundamentally distorting human characteristic and, hence, why one should seek to cure or avoid it altogether.
