Aristotle's Understanding Of Virtue Ethics

Virtue theory was being used to better develop the understanding of virtue ethics and the use of the highest goods. Firstly, Aristotle had spilt the use of virtue ethics into three different categories. The three different categories were split into the theoretical, practical, and the productivity sciences. The theoretical sciences main idea was to “discover truths”; the practical science was the “performance of actions”, whereas the productive science was “the goal of making objects.” Instead of looking at all three perspectives of virtue ethics, Aristotle based his perspective amongst the practical science which involved the actions of individual, resulting towards the high standards of performance through the good characteristics of a human …show more content…
Firstly, the Greek word of Eudaimonia was known as “happiness”. Aristotle had split the form of happiness into three categories known as pleasure, freedom, and a thinker. Aristotle believed that one of the best ways to achieve becoming a virtuous being was by finding balance between these three categories, which positively increased living a happy life. In relation of living a happy life, Aristotle talks about individuals getting involved in the society through interactions between different groups of family members, friends, and various individuals around the society. Through a big path in our lives, these allies eventually become a significant aspect of our lives by making moral decisions figuring out ones that please us, show respect, along with being dependent upon each other. Finally, Aristotle believed that the best way to achieve Eudaimonia was through practice and the use of skills becoming a habit. As we were all once born, no one was born with the knowledge of being a virtue, but by practicing things over and over again, became a habit which led to the improvement of the knowledge of virtuous beings. An example, of this would be playing your favorite sport. We all had started at a young age and by practicing different techniques and skills over long periods of time, made us a master at certain sports. This is because these skills became a habit and through our moral decision, we …show more content…
To start off, the golden mean is a balance between two extremes. The two main extremes are excess and deficiency, which both lie under the categories of being vices. According to Aristotle, he explains his understanding of the two vices with rashness being the excess and cowardice being the deficiency. Developing In the middle, courage was shown as a virtue between both vices. The rashness of being a vice is directed by rushing into a moment of danger without perceiving it properly and the deficiency of misperceiving the level of danger and letting that aim over. The local reason that danger is opposed and being able to reasonably take that on, is an exercise of courage. Courage isn’t something that we react towards a situation. Aristotle’s perspective, we view it as a very thoughtful and reasonable way of acing. Ending with the state for courage is rashness, by rushing in to a situation is dangerous and they don’t take the consideration of the necessary danger. Aristotle finishes with, “for men are good in but one way, but bad in many.” This explains how there will always be one mean in the middle surrounding various vices. The mean is the main goal for humans, having a range between two vices. Furthermore, Aristotle has split the virtues into two categories. The first category was the intellectual virtue which was developed through instruction, one being secondary and the other being secondary, along