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Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle's foundational treatise on virtue ethics; Book II sets out the doctrine of the mean, holding that each virtue of character is a mean between a vice of excess and a vice of deficiency.

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Author
Aristotle
Published
-340

Aristotle's foundational treatise on virtue ethics; Book II sets out the doctrine of the mean, holding that each virtue of character is a mean between a vice of excess and a vice of deficiency.

The Golden MeanToolEvery virtue sits on a spectrum: underdo it and it's a vice, overdo it and it's a vice. The Golden Mean names the admirable middle and both ways you miss it.