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Virtue Ethics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Example: A soldier choosing to stay and fight rather than flee.
  - - - Example: A sailor throwing cargo overboard in a storm to save the ship, coerced by circumstances.
  - - - Example: Unknowingly insulting a friend without caring after realizing it.
- - - - Negative traits, such as greed or short-temperedness, obstruct a good life.
      - Positive traits, such as kindness, can lead to a good life
- - - - Early Practice: Engaging in flawed attempts to practice virtue.
        
        Improvement: Gradually refining the practice of virtue.
        
        Mastery: Achieving a habitual state of virtue.
- - - - For example, courage is the mean between cowardice (deficiency) and recklessness (excess).
  - - - Habituation: The process by which repeated virtuous actions become ingrained in one's character.
- - - - Therefore, eudaimonia has little place for the consideration of animals
- - - - Eudaimonia: The ultimate goal of human life, achieved by fulfilling one's Ergon.
- - - - If one were to lack Phronesis, they cannot apply this to their life