🔑Virtues of character can be acquired through habits and actions, not naturally.
💡The doctrine of the mean views virtue as the state between excess and deficiency.
🌟True virtue requires both the right state of mind and right action.
🔍Virtue focuses on motive, not just efficiency, unlike production.
💭Virtues and vices are states, not feelings or capacities.
Can virtues of character be acquired naturally?
—No, virtues of character cannot be acquired naturally but through habits and actions.
What is the doctrine of the mean?
—The doctrine of the mean considers virtue as the state between excess and deficiency.
What does true virtue require?
—True virtue requires both the right state of mind and right action.
How does virtue differ from production?
—Virtue focuses on motive, not just efficiency, unlike production.
What are virtues and vices?
—Virtues and vices are states, not feelings or capacities.
00:09Section 1: Virtues of Character and Virtues of Thought
00:19Section 2: Reading with the Goal of Action
00:27Section 3: Pleasure and Virtuous State
01:17Section 4: Virtue Requires the Right State of Mind
01:56Section 5: Virtue as a State
02:32Section 6: Understanding Excess, Deficiency, and Intermediate States
03:09Section 7: The Mean of Virtues
04:19Section 8: Virtuous Balanced State
