https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq Made with panache en-us 2020-11-05 16:08:28 UTC 2020-11-05 17:50:47 UTC hello@padlet.com ehyman2_4 https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894628885 What is one thing that you found interesting or were confused by in the reading? Try to use textual evidence. We are going to discuss a few of them afterwards.]]> 2020-11-05 16:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894628885 https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894889294 I thought it was interesting when Aristotle claimed that virtue is neither emotion nor knowledge because neither can be praised nor blamed and then said that, by process of elimination, it is "a habit or trained faculty." Does that mean he views it as a skill?]]> 2020-11-05 17:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894889294 jgonzalez456_1 https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894892947 I was confused when Aristotle said, "“Virtue, then, has to deal with feelings or passions and with outward acts, in which excess is wrong and deficiency also is blamed, but the mean amount is praised and is right —both of which are characteristics of virtue." I'm not entirely sure, but is he contradicting himself or is it something else?

]]> 2020-11-05 17:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894892947 https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894895565 I was confused by Aristotle's claims that "“after a man has lived happily to a good old age, and ended as he lived, it is possible that many changes may befall him in the persons of his descendants” (Chapter 10) While I understand how  the life of a person can affect them, how can the lives of others change them after they died?]]> 2020-11-05 17:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894895565 https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894897652 “It seems then—to conclude—that the prosperity, and likewise the adversity, of friends does affect the dead, but not in such a way or to such an extent as to make the happy unhappy, or to do anything of the kind”(52).
I thought that Aristotle's idea of things happening in the living affecting the dead was very interesting. I wonder how much this had to do with his religious beliefs.

Excerpt From: Aristotle. “Nicomachean Ethics.” iBooks. ]]> 2020-11-05 17:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894897652 https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894898396 "excellence then, being of these two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual excellence owes its birth and growth mainly to instruction so requires time and experience, while moral excellence is the result of habit or custom." pg 77 

he is talking about the virtues and faculties of the soul, and how they can be trained/learned or they can grow out of a person's nature and become a habit. ]]> 2020-11-05 17:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894898396 https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894909921 “Virtue, then, is a kind of moderation (μεσότης τις)26 inasmuch as it aims at the mean or moderate amount (τὸ μέσον).”
I thought that this idea of having a "mean" was very interesting to me.

Excerpt From: Aristotle. “Nicomachean Ethics.” Apple Books. ]]> 2020-11-05 17:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894909921 https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894915277 I thought it was interesting how Aristotle transitioned from talking about how happiness is achieved through virtues to then transitioning to talk about how to achieve those virtues. (““Since happiness is an exercise of the vital faculties in accordance with perfect virtue or excellence, we will now inquire about virtue or excellence;”) I think it says a lot about the purpose of the book.]]> 2020-11-05 17:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ehyman2_4/z7vqa4s6untne7fq/wish/894915277