PHIL 1290 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Categorical Imperative, Intellectual Virtue, Moral Rights

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If activities determine the quality of life, no happy man can become miserable: a happy man = active with perfect virtue and adequately furnished with external goods. Virtue and the mean: consider virtue as the best way of studying happiness, virtue is: partly intellectual and partly moral. Intellectual virtue is originated and fostered mainly by teaching, thus demands experience and time: moral virtue is the outcome of habit, cause and means by which any virtue is produced and destroyed are the same. It is by our actions in dealing between man and man that we become either just or unjust. It is always hard to find the mean (happiness) in the mean anything. Your ipod, computer; they contribute to your: soul (ex. Everything in your mind that you can use to pursue: body (ex. Health) your happiness, one"s characteristics: virtue or excellence: possession or practice? (ex.