CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS

By:

James E. White

“Moral virtue is a state of character that is mean between the extremes of rashness and cowardice.”

Learning Expectations:

I expect to learn the pursuit of happiness that discusses the virtue of a person.

Happiness and Virtue – Aristotle

Review:

According to the author, the moral virtue comes from the actions of a person to do a certain task
which may identify what kind of a person you are. Happiness by his definition is something that you are
doing or perform a habit that connected to virtue. It is the matter of enjoyment that would base the
pleasure of life on its person subjected; it has a lot of reasons depending on the situation of every person.
Hence, you can found yourself as called happy if you are enjoying what you do, but it doesn’t mean that
what you are doing is always good though you are enjoying it.

He also mentioned that the ethical virtue has a need of customizing oneself in able to do or
perform this frequently. However, some people cannot do this as frequent they must do because of the
reasons that they don’t do to train themselves to accustom its virtue. It is possible to us to become happy
but the question is on how we able to do our activity with prior to the intellectual virtue that were
mentioned by Aristotle. He said that the most enjoyment in life is you must recognize the pleasure of life
on you able to control certain things happened in the same way of actions.

Lesson Learned:

I learned that happiness is something you can earned with pleasure in able to recognize the true
meaning of happiness. It is the virtue you can control things in your life. But happiness comes from the
definition of your actions that you have done whether if it is good or bad, but there’s always a
consequences that you must bear it in the future.
Integrative Questions:

1. What is happiness?

2. What is virtue in accordance to tasks?

3. How are the two connected?

4. What are the two kinds of virtue?

5. What is intellectual virtue?