Aristotle believed that the chief good for humans is eudaimonia or happiness. He defined this as achieving all goods like health, wealth, knowledge, and friends through a complete lifetime to perfect human nature. Aristotle viewed moral virtue as a mean between extremes of deficiency and excess regarding behavior. He distinguished between intellectual virtue developed through teaching and moral virtue developed through practice of habits over time in accordance with one's nature. Moral virtue involves finding the golden mean between excess and deficiency for each virtue.

1. VIRTUE ETHICS BY ARISTOTLE

2. AIM IN LIFE BY ARISTOTLE
• Aristotle believes that the Chief Good for humans is
Eudaimonia (often translated as 'happiness’)
Concept of Complete Life
• According to Aristotle, happiness consists in achieving,
through the course of a whole lifetime, all the goods —
health, wealth, knowledge, friends, etc. — that lead to the
perfection of human nature and to the enrichment of human
life. This requires us to make choices, some of which may
be very difficult.

3. VIRTUE
• Aristotle defines moral virtue as a disposition to behave in
the right manner and as a mean between extremes of
deficiency and excess

4. TYPES OF VIRTUE
• Intellectual virtue
• Moral virtue

5. INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE
Intellectual virtues are qualities of mind and character that
promote intellectual flourishing, critical thinking, and the
pursuit of truth.

6. MORAL VIRTUE
What is moral virtue?
Aristotle defines moral virtue as a disposition to behave in
the right manner and as a mean between extremes of
deficiency and excess.

7. How one can earn moral virtue?
Intellectual virtue comes from teaching, but moral virtue
comes from habit. This means that the two are acquired
differently; intellectual virtue can be acquired by reading a
book; moral virtue can be acquired only through practice.
... Nothing can form a habit that is contrary to its nature.

8. MORAL VIRTUE
Golden Means by Aristotle
The golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable
middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of
deficiency.

9. MORAL VIRTUE
Example of Golden Means
For example, in the Aristotelian view, courage is a virtue, but
if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness, and, in
deficiency, cowardice.