Aristotle's doctrine of the mean
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- Created on: 20-02-18 19:53
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- For Aristotle, cultivating virtues was to balance the two extremes of excess and deficiency
- Each virtue comes with an associated vice
- Balancing the virtues and achieving the mean is not easy
Aristotle's doctrine of the mean produces three types of person:
- The sophron: naturally lives in the mean without effort
- The enkrates: tempted but has strong enough willpower to live…
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