virtues and vices

First type of virtue

Intellectual: ability to make informed, rational choices about the right way to act

Second type of virtue

Moral: dispositions ensuring we actually feel that we act appropriately

vices

• states of character preventing a good life

• often guided by desires

doctrine of the mean

the desirable middle between two extremes of excess and deficiency

nurture and virtues

"their full development in us is due to habit"

habituation

a type of education undergone by repetition, developing ethica arête