KIN 2500 Chapter : Chapter 1
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Book i: he studies under plato for 20 years until he dies, aristotle tutors alexander the great, died in. He has a son named nichomachus, who edited the text nichomachean ethics. Why don"t you hurt your neighbor? : because god says not to this is how they would answer in the middle ages, nowadays, there are too many religions to be able to use religious justification the. It is the heart that matters to us, but the greeks think it is the actions that matter: you have chance born into good family, good body, good mind, or you aren"t. Virtue is not like a part of the body it is kind of like a craft or an art because both take time to develop. We become just by doing just actions, brave by doing brave actions, etc. Object of shoemaking is the shoe, there are general rules for making them. Material for virtue, object is courage or living.