Explain the Golden Mean and how individuals gain the ability over time to rightly judge what good moral behavior is.

On Virtue Ethics

• Describe the acorn/oak tree analogy as relevant to Aristotle’s virtue ethics.

• What is the ultimate goal that Aristotle thinks all action aims at?

• What are external goods? Provide examples and an explanation of their value.

• What are internal goods? Provide examples and explanations of them.

• Which of the two types of goods are most important for human well-being? Why?

• Explain the Golden Mean and how individuals gain the ability over time to rightly judge what good moral behavior is.

• Which of the types of goods does Aristotle say is most important and why?

• How does Aristotle say that our character is formed? (Explain how habits develop and how our will is shaped by action.)

• How does Aristotle relate politics (and institutions more generally) to ethics?

• Why is Aristotle’s ethical position known as a virtue ethics?

And also works cited page The book we used is Doing Ethics %th edition Lewis Vaughn thats the only source we are allowed to use

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