PHIL4406 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hexis
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It is a mean between two vices, one of excess and one of deficiency: a hexis (a stable mind, habit, characteristic, not what comes and goes) that is proairetike (concerned with, determine of, giving rise to choice) 2. lying in a mesotes (mean, intermediate) between excess and deficiency. 3: a mean relative to us (to each of us, to the relative facts of us, a mean determined by logos (reason(ing), formula, proportion, explanation, by which a pronimos (person of practical wisdom) would determine it. Person who got virtue knows what he or she is doing. He or she does it because he or she recognizes it as good. It is neither a mere power or capacity, nor a mere pathos feelings, passion, something that happens to you. It is more than a habit, it is not a state (sleeping does not mean to be virtues.
