Aristotle defined virtue as achieving excellence through fulfillment of a certain function. He stated that people are born with the opportunity to have virtues but they must act accordingly throughout their function. Any function that is good and well must possess some sort of end objective which is what a person is in search of, and it’s through the activity of the soul that a function may achieve what it is searching for. Aristotle believes that anything that can move has a soul, which consists of perception, nutrition, and rationality. Only the human soul can reason and rationalize leading to human excellence and ultimately happiness. Virtue to Aristotle isn’t about knowledge as it is about the social activity of being good and moral to
