Wanton
Wanton may refer to: * Incontinence in philosophy * Wanton (surname) * Wanton, Florida Micanopy ( ) is a town in Alachua County, Florida, United States, located south of Gainesville. The population as of the 2010 census was 600. The oldest community in the interior of Florida that has been continually inhabited, it has a dow ..., later renamed Micanopy See also * Wonton {{dab ...
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Wanton (surname)
Wanton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *George H. Wanton (1868–1940), Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army *Gideon Wanton (1693–1767), Governor of Rhode Island *John Wanton (1672–1740), Governor of Rhode Island *Joseph Wanton (1705–1780), Governor of Rhode Island *Joseph Wanton Jr. (1730–1780), Loyalist in the American Revolution, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island *William Wanton (1670–1733), Governor of Rhode Island See also *Wonton A wonton () is a type of Chinese dumpling commonly found across regional styles of Chinese cuisine. It is also spelled wantan or wuntun in transliteration from Cantonese () and wenden from Shanghainese (). There are many different styles of ...

Wanton, Florida
Micanopy ( ) is a town in Alachua County, Florida, United States, located south of Gainesville. The population as of the 2010 census was 600. The oldest community in the interior of Florida that has been continually inhabited, it has a downtown that is designated as the Micanopy Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains a number of antique stores, as well as several restaurants, a library, firehouse, and post office. The town's unofficial slogan is "The Town that Time Forgot." History In 1774 the American naturalist William Bartram recorded his impressions of a proto-Seminole village named ''Cuscowilla'' -- along with its chief, Cowkeeper or Ahaya -- located in the same vicinity as the modern town. By the time Spain ceded its Florida provinces to the U.S. in 1821, the newly constructed hamlet of Micanopy became the first distinct United States town in the Florida Territory. One of the founders was Moses Elias Levy, a wealthy Je ...
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Incontinence (philosophy)
Incontinence ("a want of continence or self-restraint") is often used by philosophers to translate the Greek term Akrasia (ἀκρασία). Used to refer to a lacking in moderation or self-control, especially related to sexual desire, incontinence may also be called wantonness. Aristotle Aristotle devoted book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics to the discussion of continence and incontinence, having previously linked the latter both to prodigality in its effects, and to those dominated by irrational feeling in its failure to obey knowledge of the good: a case of knowing virtue, but not having habituated it to control passion. Aristotle considered one could be incontinent with respect to money or temper or glory, but that its core relation was to bodily enjoyment. Its causes could be weakness of will, or an impetuous refusal to think. At the same time, he did not consider it a vice, because it is not so much a product of moral choice, but instead, a failure to act on one's better k ...
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