Virtue In Humans, Of Nature Or Created

Virtue in humans, of nature or created

Introduction

Aristotle states that virtue is not created in the nature of the individual, although it recognizes that it is merely natural for the ability to understand these virtues and perfect them with everyday life or customs. That is why virtue is the habit by which man becomes good and performs well the activity or work that is entrusted to him. Aristotle distinguishes between moral, or character virtue, and intellectual virtue. While looking for a medium between vices and a class of state to perform the best actions that the relationship with pleasure and pain maintains, moral virtue makes the human being good. 

Developing

Art only requires knowledge, but virtue requires rational choice and constant exercise of the same. It is difficult to be good because it is difficult to find the environment, and the function of education is precisely to help reach it. Between excess and defect the midpoint is virtue or magnificence and Aristotle calls the two most distant ends as opposites. Aristotle says that we can describe virtues such as things that are destroyed by deficiency or excess. 

Someone who flees becomes a coward, while someone who fears nothing is reckless. In this way, the virtue ‘courage’ can be seen as a ‘middle ground’ between two ends. People get used to virtuous actions, possibly by the guidance of teachers or experience, and in turn these habits become true virtues where we chose good actions deliberately.

According to Aristotle, the character properly understood (that is, the virtue or vice of a person), is not any tendency or habit, but something that affects when we feel pleasure or pain. A virtuous person feels pleasure when performing beautiful or noble actions (Kalos). A person who is not virtuous will often find his perceptions of what is pleasant misleading. When a person does virtuous actions, for example by chance, or under advice, a virtuous person is still not necessarily. 

It is not like in productive arts, where what is being done is what is judged as well done or not. To be truly a virtuous person, the virtuous actions of one must meet three conditions: they are known, they are chosen by their own good, and are chosen according to a stable disposition not to a whim, or in any way that the personwho acts could easily change your choice). And just knowing what would be virtuous is not enough.

conclusion

Comparing virtue with productive arts (technoi) as with the arts, the virtue of character must be not only the realization of a good human being, but also the way in which humans do their own work well. Being an expert in an art can also be described as a means between excess and deficiency: when they are very tenth that we do not want to remove or add anything from them. But Aristotle points out a simplification in this idea of the middle ground. In terms of what is better, we look for an end.