Aristotle Book II

This week in Book II, I had a lot of questions. I thought this reading would follow along like the first book, but while reading I had many different things that I just could not comprehend. We can see what Aristotle has defined “virtuous” and how it can be used in our everyday life. One thing that I did not understand, however, was how us as humans can perceive virtue in order to become virtuous. We can learn that us as humans can not simply be suffice with the bare minimum; we can’t be too little or too much or we won’t thrive. Aristotle uses this to describe how humans achieve virtue. He says that there are certain aspects of virtue that you cannot achieve but this directly contradicts some of the arguments he made in Book I as well as Book II. I want to know if every pathway to virtue is linear, or if there is more than one way to fulfill this. We can see Aristotle outlines that the decisions we make can overshadow the affects of virtue that we achieve. As Aristotle continues to progress in his definition of virtuous, we can ask ourselves several questions. To whom does virtue apply? How is virtue accessed amongst several people of the same statute? These are just some of the questions I had while reading.