What is virtue?

1. What is virtue? • Passion • Faculty • State of Character

2. Spectrum Virtue: the mean between extremes Deficiency Mean Excess Fear ---Confidence Coward Courage Rash

4. “Moderation in all things.” As Mom says:

5. eudaimoniaeudaimonia An activity of the soul in conformity with perfect virtue extended over a lifetime supplemented by sufficient external goods. "Happiness"

6. Your Soul? Your Example Cause Definition Example Aristotle’s Four Causes Material Cause “that out of which a thing comes to be, and which persists” Elements: earth, air, water, fire, or… “Wood is what the table is made out of.” Formal Cause “the statement of essence” “the account of what-it-is-to-be” Shape, figure, blueprint, type… “Having four legs and a flat top is what it is to be a table.” Efficient Cause “the primary source of change, generation, or movement” The man who gives advice, the father (of a child)… “A carpenter is what produces a table.” Final Cause “the end or goal, that for the sake of which a thing is done” Health (is the cause of exercise)… telos “Writing upon is what a table is for.”

7. 4 ELEMENTS http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm Back