Aristotle's doctrine of the mean

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  • Created by: gemshort
  • Created on: 20-02-18 19:53
  • 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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