HUMA 1825 Chapter Notes - Chapter Aristotle: Hubris
1 Nov 2015
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Explain its distinguishing features and how it is acquired. Give a couple of examples of virtues and vices. According to aristotle virtue is defined in two key terms that are; moral (through experience and habit), and intellectual (learned through wisdom). Thus, moral virtue is to behave the correct way by habit, and the right conducts. An important attitude towards pleasure and pain is an important habit that is used to develop moral virtue. To be virtuous is a disposition (constitution) to behave the right way as a mean between the extremes of the two vices (evil) that are deviance and excess. The distinguishing features of how moral virtue is acquired is through experience, habit, and adapting to behaving the correct way in society. Good behaviour manifests by itself as part of a fixed, or virtuous disposition.
