Aristotle's Virtue Ethics
Aristotle's Virtue Ethics
SPRING 2013
The Broad Brushstrokes
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1. If you eat and drink excessively, then you will ruin your health.
2. If you eat and drink not enough, then you will ruin your health.
3. Health is preserved by not eating and drinking excessively and not
eating and drinking too little. (1,2)
4. Health is preserved by eating and drinking just the right amount.
(3)
5. The right amount is a mean between the extremes of excess and
deficiency.
6. Health is preserved by eating and drinking within the mean of
excess and deficiency. (4,5)
7. Health is preserved by the mean between excess and deficiency. (6)
Aristotles Doctrine of the Mean
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Deficiency>>>>>Mean>>>>>Excess