be good. It is important to note that this is not a necessary
condition of vice. One can be vicious by knowingly pursuing the bad.
One can also be vicious while lacking any conception of the good or
bad. Roger Sterling, a character on the television series Mad Men,
never bothers to develop a conception of the good or bad. But, since
he is blameworthy for failing to do so, and since he consistently does
what a self-indulgent person would do, he is still vicious.
Aristotle's conditions on vice are sufficient. His analysis of vice,
[...] enables us to account for the vices of people who falsely and
negligently believe that they are doing good.»
-- Heather Battaly,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
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