Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, whose surviving works span logic, physics, biology, ethics, and politics.[1] In the Nicomachean Ethics he set out the doctrine of the mean — the foundational text of virtue ethics — holding that each virtue of character is a mean between a vice of excess and a vice of deficiency.[2]
Aristotle
Greek philosopher (384–322 BC), student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, whose Nicomachean Ethics founded the Western tradition of virtue ethics.
Fact sheet
- Lived
- -384–-322
- Class
- researcher
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Kraut, Richard, "Aristotle's Ethics," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.↩
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/