O meio relativo a nós em Aristóteles

• Main Author: João Hobuss
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2007-01-01
• Series: Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
• Subjects: Virtue; Mean; Circumstances.
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/17427

<div>The essential intent of this paper is to elucidate the meaning of the term pros h&ecirc;mas appearing inside&nbsp;the Aristotelian definition of moral virtue. In this definition, after having established the genus of&nbsp;virtue as a disposition ( hexis), Aristotle offers his specific difference, i.e., being a mean pros h&ecirc;mas&nbsp;(relative to us). What is the meaning of &ldquo;relative to us&rdquo;? Relative to us as specie? Relative to the moral&nbsp;agent? Relative to the character? Every one of these possibilities will be analyzed, in an attempt to</div><div>demonstrate that none of them fulfills the Aristotelian intent, because us in the expression &ldquo;relative to&nbsp;us&rdquo; seems to point out to circumstances in which the agent is involved with, what seems to be asserted&nbsp;in several passages of the Nicomachean Ethics</div>