Philosophy Moral Virtue and the Mean In this reading Aristotle describes virtue concerning actions and passions, and the choice of how we become our actions and passions is either of excess, defect, or intermediate. Excess and deficiency both forms of failure and the intermediate (mean) a form of success. Man is to determine a mean which lies between two vices which both falls short of goodness. Aristotle believes the middle ground will lead you to …showed first 75 words of 770 total…

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