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And a proof of the real difference between these so designated

with an addition and those simply so called is this, that

Imperfect Self-Control is blamed, not as an error merely but also

as being a vice, either wholly or partially; but none of these

other cases is so blamed.

But of those who have for their object-matter the bodily

enjoyments, which we say are also the object-matter of the man of

Perfected Self-Mastery and the man who has lost all Self-Control,

he that pursues excessive pleasures and too much avoids[10]

things which are painful (as hunger and thirst, heat and cold,

and everything connected with touch and taste), not from moral

choice but in spite of his moral choice and intellectual

conviction, is termed "a man of Imperfect Self-Control," not with

the addition of any particular object-matter as we do in respect

of want of control of anger but simply.