Abstract
In Nicomachean Ethics 9.4 Aristotle says that the virtuous person will be ‘without regret’ and that bad people are full of regret. And in Nicomachean Ethics 7.8 he says that every akratic person is regretful but an unrestrained person is free from regret. Why does he think this? Is it correct? The case of Agamemnon, who sacrifices his daughter to allow the Greeks to sail to Troy, suggests that sometimes it would be wrong not to regret an action even if it was overall the best thing to do. So why does Aristotle think otherwise?
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