Aristotle explains virtue by first explaining what things are found in the soul. He says that the soul has three things-passions, faculties, and states of character, and virtue must be one of these. Passions are things such as anger, fear, longing, and joy. Faculties are the act of becoming angry, frightened, etc. Finally, state of character is how we cope with those passions. An example of this can be made with the passion anger. A person can either have excess or deficiency. This means that he can be a tyrant or passive.
Aristotle then concludes that passion cannot be virtue. He says this because we are not c
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