Human skin color Essay

Virtue, then, is a state that decides, consisting in a mean, the mean relative to us, which is defined by reference to reason, that is to say, to the reason by reference to which the prudent person would define it. It is a mean amid two vices, one of excess and one of insufficiency Aristotles definition of Virtue of Character but what is it really saying. Let us define it with the Socratic Definition per genus et contrastingia. Let us break it into the ternion parts genus, species and the differentiating factor (differentia).The genus or general topic would be virtue of character, the species or the specific area of virtue of character would be the mean between the two vices excess and neediness, lastly is the differentiating factor or what makes the species different from other forms of it which would be the situation and how individual people can reason out different outcomes from what is required from them.Virtue is an activity of the human soul and has two parts virtue of cha racter and virtue of intellect. Virtue of intellect is wisdom and knowledge an mannequin would be analyze at school. Virtue of character is learned by action and practice an illustration would be learning that cheating on tests is heavy(a) and knowing not to attempt it. Reasoning out where we stand in a particular situation is not related to knowledge or studying but rather repeated application of acts so Aristotles is stating acts of character not of intellect.Nothing can be to good, have to little and you have deficiency have too much and its excess. The mean is the middle ground between too much and too little. This mean varies on person to person. An example would be too much sun.Take a 2 people one with a fair skin tone and one with a low skin tone. The mean amount of sun for the dark skin tone would be excess to the fair skinned person and possibly give them sunburn. forget the dark toned person the mean amount of sun required by the fair toned person and you have defici ency and could led to lose of vitamin E. But its up to the individual to regulate between the two through trial and error.