Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle. (1926/1999). Nicomachean Ethics. mesotes.

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Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1999 this edition · first published 1926

Pages cited

1-3

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Primes

• Balance
  • … specifically in that balance is often achieved (through deliberate distribution) whereas equilibrium is often reached (by dynamics converging to a rest state); the two overlap but are not identical, and the balance concept preserves the design-and-intervention sense that equilibrium alone does not emphasize.
• Virtue Ethics
  • The essential commitment is that a virtue is the stable character trait — an integrated pattern of perception, emotion, deliberation, and action — oriented toward a good, and that right action flows from (and is explicable only by reference to) a character so disposed.

    This sourceAristotle stable character trait virtue definition.

  • the moral-development trajectory that moves the agent from untrained action to stable disposition; and (4) the relation of virtue to the practical wisdom phronesis —

    This sourceAristotle practical wisdom phronesis practical judgment.

  • Aristotle analyzes courage (in Nicomachean Ethics II.7–III.9) as the mean between rashness and cowardice — the stable character trait settled in the disposition to fear what ought to be feared, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right reason, and to act accordingly.

    This sourceAristotle courage mean between cowardice rashness stable trait.

Mechanisms

• Exception Review Protocol
  • Its strength is that it keeps a necessary floor just at the edge without dissolving it — structured discretion that corrects the over-generality of any rule in the particular case, the ancient idea of equity as the rectification of law where its universal terms fall short.

    This sourceDefines equity as correcting a general legal rule when its universality makes it defective in a particular case.

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