Aristotle 3
In this reading Aristotle describes virtue concerning actions and passions, and the choice of how we become our actions and passions is either of excess, defect, or intermediate. Excess and deficiency both forms of failure and the intermediate (mean) a form of success. Man is to determine a mean which lies between two vices which both falls short of goodness. Aristotle believes the middle ground will lead you to virtue while too much and too little destroy goodness. To choose the mean in our actions and passions we are to feel them at the right times, with reference to the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive, and in the right way.(123) One of many examples Aristotle gives is regarding anger. He calls the intermediate person good-tempered which is a form of success and virtue, while the person who exceeds is irascible and the person who is deficient inirascible, both forms of failure and vice. Aristotle also points out that it is difficult to find the mean and easy to fail in many ways, “To miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult.”(123) I think this is why finding
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Virtue Mean, actions passions, middle ground, theft murder, lean towards, lesser evils, choose lesser evils, form success, excess deficiency, forms failure, choose lesser, easily forgive,
Approximate Word count = 771
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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