POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Intellectual Virtue
7 Dec 2012
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Every action is to seek some good towards some perspective. Political science is the science of good of cities . Happiness is the greatest good one can have. What is different from humans compared to plants and animals is humans rationality. When talking about happiness, one should consider ones entire life not just the moment of time. We can only consider one happy after death, when the life can be examined. However, a good person will always come out happy at the end of a bad situation. The irrational soul has two aspects: the vegetative aspect, which deals with nutrition and growth and has little connection to virtue; and the appetitive aspect, which governs our impulses. The rational part controls the impulse one has- higher rationality, more control over impulse. Two types of virtues: morality and intellectual. Ones learns intellectual virtue instructions; moral is taught by habit and constant practice. Virtue is a reason to act in a right way.
