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Aristotle’s Account of Virtue.
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ARISTOTLE'S ACCOUNT OF VIRTUE Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics is largely concerned with achieving the highest good. To achieve the highest good, which we call happiness, he argues that we need virtue. In this paper, I will examine what virtue consists in, and within that section explore how virtue is related to reason. After that, I will discuss Aristotle's ideas about how to achieve virtue. Finally, I will present a criticism of Aristotle's view on habituation and explain why I find it to be unreasonable. Aristotle begins his explanation of virtue by stating that we are searching virtue of the soul, not of the body, since happiness (which is what we are seeking) is an activity of the soul. He then says that there are two divisible parts of the soul, the part with reason and the non-rational part (1102a-30). Within the non-rational part lies two more parts: a plantlike, and a...
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