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In book Four, Chapter Eight of the Ethics, Aristotle applies his philosophical ideals to the concept of humor and good company. He establishes categories and kinds of humor or wit, and sets limits for the behavior that a gentleman and a wise man will accept. At one point, however, he makes the admission that its hard to define when ridicule is appropriate. Because people react to ridicule in different w ....
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.... which is the gentlemans ability to give and take gentle humor in a conversation. A wit is someone whose pleasantries do not go too far, and is always ready with a witty remark or a pleasant joke:
...as to the middle state in dealing with the humorous,
particularly characteristic of that is social tact or
address, which may be defined as the gift of saying just
the right things for a gentleman to say and of getting
others to say such things to him.
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