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Aristotle: The Golden Mean
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Vices, Virtues, And Deficiencies
These are pretty self explanatory,
Vices are simply having too much, Deficiencies are having not enough, and Virtue is how Aristotle described the balance.
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Aristotle: The Golden Mean
Sources
http://www.classtools.net/widgets/dustbin_6/x4fji.htm
1.Discovering the Humanities, 2nd Edition. Sayre
2. http://aquileana.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/aristotles-ethical-theory-on-the-concepts-of-virtue-and-golden-mean/
3.Classtools.net
What is it all about?
For Aristotle the Golden mean was the way that all Greeks could find "the good life".
This he felt could be applied to all things that men did.
What is the Good Life?
For Aristotle, The good life is when a person can balance between their vices and deficiencies.
He called this balanced action