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Chase's avatar

Hearing about virtue as a mean between two vices was pretty insane to me (in that it blew my mind). It's something that I could see the shadow of but never really had the words to say it. I also love that Aristotle says, "Hey, don't just think about this stuff, actually live it." Here's to trying to grow in virtue!

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Nathan's avatar

For those of us with the goal of becoming better people, the end of Book 2 leaves us with an important call to evaluate our own tendencies.

“But one must examine what we ourselves readily incline toward, for some of us naturally incline to some things, others to others.”

By identifying the pleasures and pains associated with particular activities, we can recognize the direction in which we lean and over correct in the opposite direction, therefore finding the mean more easily.

Overall I find Book 2 to be a bit more straightforward in terms of my ability to follow from point to point with less need to pause, re-read, etc. Looking forward to Book 3 and beyond!

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