Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics•Grade 9•rhetoric Stage
The Doctrine of the Mean
The Text
What You'll Learn
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Comprehension
Defines virtue as the mean between excess and deficiency
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Cause & Consequence
Explains why finding the mean is difficult - "it is easy to miss the mark, hard to hit it"
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Meaning
Takes a position on whether the doctrine of the mean is a useful guide to virtue
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Defense
Steel-mans the counterargument (presents it in its strongest form)
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