Question

Bearing in mind Aristotle's general view about the best life, what qualifies a character trait as a virtue? It is not that it is at the "Golden Mean", contrary to a couple of Aristotle's remarks.

Answer 1

According to Aristotle, a virtue is a trait of mind or character that helps us achieve a good life, Aristotle defines states of character as ‘the things in virtue of which we stand well or badly with reference to the passions’. Character is such that which defines how a person is by the set of values he possesses like if he is truthful, caring, passionate, helping and vurtuous then he is said to be a good character man on the contrary if he is disrespectful, fake, the self-centered non-caring person his character is considered doubtful.

Aristotle's golden mean theory says that " Moral behaviour is the mean between two extremes - at one end is excess, at the other deficiency."Thus there is a connection between the virtuous way of life and happiness of an individual.