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However, more important than this is the key difference that aristotle displayed setting himself apart from his tutor plato; ra... Read More
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And so with the other virtues and vices.
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Western civilisation arose on legacy of number of powerfull books, and nicomachean ethics is one of those books.
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good, virtuous, human, mean and most. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 148.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 739 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 31 2023.
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Aristotle was a philosopher in search of the chief good for human beings
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Aristotle sees pleasure honour and virtue as significant wants for people and then argues that virtue is the most important of these
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It is in the nicomachean ethics that aristotle proposes the doctrine of the mean he states that virtue is a mean state that is it aims for the mean or middle ground
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However aristotle is often misquoted and misinterpreted here for he very quickly in the text disallows the idea of the mean to be applied in all cases
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There are things actions and emotions that do not allow the mean state
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Thus aristotle tends to view virtue as a relative state making the analogy with food for some two pounds of meat might be too much food but for others it might be too little
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The mean exists between the state of deficiency too little and excessiveness too much
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With regard to money being stingy and being illiberal with generosity are the extremes the one deficient and the other excessive
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