8. How do we become virtuous? Are virtues given to us by nature? How are the virtues like
the “arts”?
We become honest and good by experience things and copying different examples No
Good qualities and advantage are not given by nature they are things that you learn and
need to take time to develop. Good things, excellence, and advantage is like the arts
because its something you learn overtime and eventually you become really good at it.
9. There seems to be something paradoxical about acquiring a virtue. What objection to his
account of acquiring virtue does Aristotle consider? And how does he refute that objection?
There are two types of Virtues Intellectual and Moral, Intellectual can be gained by learning
how to do something like cook, playing sports, etc. For Moral virtue is practicing something
for long period of time and after a while it becomes normal and good at it.
10. What kind of a characteristic is a virtue?
Virtue is a trial that is Morally good and valued.
11. What does Aristotle mean when he defines a virtue as a median between an excess and
a deficiency?
and being helpful to others is being excess.