‘moral virtue’. Although Aristotle focus more on ethical virtue, there are two types of virtue which are, ‘intellectual virtues’ and ‘ethical virtues’. Ethical virtue is habit we must pursue or learn from relatives and friends. They are not inherent, but people practice them to transform...
achieved by virtuous action and by practising the virtuous means, so that it becomes a habit (but also right), in order to become happy and live good lives.Aristotlehighlights twelve golden/virtuous means (the midway point between the vices of excess and deficiency) which are as follows; ...
virtue。Ethical virtue has another dimension,because it is cultivated out of social custom and habit。In Nicomachean Ethics,book VI,Aristotle discussed various forms of intellectual virtue,including technical wisdom(craft,techne),theoretical wisdom(science,episteme),wisdom(sophia),understanding (nous),and ...
habit Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle Tweet More quotes about: character
"This constant habit of surveying ourselves, as it were, in reflection, keeps alive all the sentiments of right and wrong, and begets, in noble natures, a certain reverence for themselves as well as others, which is the surest guardian o... P Russell - 《Values & Virtues Aristotelianism ...
(orgoagainst)certainprinciplesorrules.But: -Othertheoriesexaminegeneralprinciplesandrulesformoralaction.Virtuesaresimply waysofdescribingthehabitoffollowingthoseprinciples. -VirtueEthics,bycontrast,startswithaconsiderationofthevirtuesthatmakeforlivinga goodlife. Whenwedescribesomeoneas‘good’or‘moral’wedonot...
Secondly, the religion has its exclusive book called “Jing” that will not vary for ever, the philosophy rather has its classics but has no exclusive book that never varies. The non-variational book “Jing” is not the same as the classics which varies, as the books of Plato, Aristotle,...
Aristotle believed that to become virtuous, one must find the Golden Mean, or the virtue. This can be done through direct experience and through emulating moral exemplars. Over time, acting in virtuous ways becomes a habit and one is more likely to align with the Golden Mean. Deficiency (too...
“NicomacheanEthics”‚Aristotlebegins by explaining how virtuous actions are acquired by habit. He writes‚ “Rather‚ we are by nature able to acquire them‚ and we are completed through habit” (Aristotle18). Essentially‚Aristotleis saying that we acquire habits as we acquire skills....
that brings us joy. Virtue is defined as a moral excellence. Aristotle explains, “Since things that are found in the soul are of three kinds – passions, faculties, states of character – virtues must be one of these” (Aristotle 627). An example of passion can be a fear or something...