How does Aristotle’s list of virtues and vices differ from our modern conceptions of vice and virtue? How might we determine which is better: Aristotle’s system or our own?
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html
After reading Books I and II of Aristotle’s ‘Nichomachean Ethics’ from the above link, please answer the following question in a one full page.
How does Aristotle’s list of virtues and vices differ from our modern conceptions of vice and virtue? How might we determine which is better: Aristotle’s system or our own?
(Please include citations from both Book I and Book II of the Ethics).
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