PHIL 2020 Chapter : Book 7
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Virtue: divine/ heroic, excellence (ar te) function. Soul- split into two parts: reason, passion. In between virtues and vice: a krasia (incontinence/non-mastery) & en krecticia (continence/mastery, a krasia, weak- they have states of character, wishes, desires, deliberation, make decisions that then lead action. Something happens between the decision and action and they know not to do it. (they can feel regret all the way through: en krecticia, strong(impetuousness)- this person does not use reason, they don"t calculate. They go from wish to action. (no regrets ever(except maybe after), because they have no reasoning) Vice: bestial, opposite of the divine, pure animal, beastly look, people whose vice exceeds the human level, they are passed viciousness, they don"t look they have reason, the vicious still look like they have reason. What are the three kinds of friendship: a. What the highest capacity of plants/animals: nutritive, perception, ex. What are the definitions of virtue that meno offers: sdkfhksdjlh.
