... . It is a mean between two vices, one of excess and one of deficiency" (Nicomachean Ethics 269). This conclusion is the basis for Aristotle's doctrine of the mean, as well as the significance Aristotle places in prudence. In book VI (Nicomachean Ethics), Aristotle combines his examination of virtue with his examination of the two parts of the soul mentioned earlier. Just as he had split ... , is where virtue is found, and a virtuous state is the one that best leads to truth (Nicomachean Ethics 308). A contemplative life is one that searches for truth. In Book VI (Nicomachean Ethics), Aris...

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... choices, or life plans or as the object of maximizing calculations. For this reason, Dewey's pluralistic welfare consequentialism was rather vaguely grouped with other non-maximizing "consequentialists" such as Aristotle and David Hume. So long as ethical theories were necessarily either consequentialist or deontological, there was of course little choice. But as moral philosophers have come to recognize virtue ethics ... of his early neo-Hegelianism is his style of progressively unfolding definitions. The result can be confusing. As an early commentator once complained, "definitions make...

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