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Aristotle 3
Date Submitted: 11/09/2002 17:52:39
Philosophy
Moral Virtue and the Mean
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
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