PHIL250 Lecture 20: Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
5 Jan 2016
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Not feeling because we are not praised or blamed for it; not predisposition because its from nature; for same reason so it must be active condition. Virtues have a mean and 2 opposed extremes. Virtue is an active state of the soul, not something we have by nature, that is someway related to human reason, involves acting in the right way to the right person for the right reasons at the right time. Knowing what is virtue is essential to being virtuous. When trying to find the mean by pulling yourself to the opposite extreme, you feel pain so you are not virtuous in the full sense. Full virtue takes pleasure in things you do and the kind of person you are. Vice is not a passive state, its an active state of character but of a wrong source. Choice requires the rational faculty, the thinking soul.
