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Aristotle described a remarkable set of criteria to delineate between good and bad people in his work entitled, Ethics

llectual virtue was something which could be learned through time and experience (91). On the other hand, moral virtue consisted of liberality and temperance (90). Moral virtue was acquired through forming good habits and repetition of good actions:

But the virtues we do acquire by first exercising them, just as happens in the arts. Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it: [just as] people become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments (91).

It was clear that in Aristotle's system, it was imperative that good habits become ingrained in our daily lives beginning in our formative years.

Aristotle tempered his instructions on virtue by warning his readers that balance was a very important element for the morally good. To provide examples he cited the fact that a healthy body could be destroyed either by drinking and eating too much or too little. He also noted in the case of the virtue of courage that the man who feared everything was a coward while the man who feared nothing was a fool (94). Thus, Aristotle believed he could judge virtue by looking for the mean or average in p

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