The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius, part of the Internet Classics Archive Although he does not say so overtly in the Categories, Aristotle evidently presumes that these ten categories of being are both exhaustive and irreducible, so that. Born at Stagira in northern Greece, Aristotle was the most notable product of the educational program devised by Plato; he spent twenty years of his life studying at. The Nicomachean Ethics (/ ˌ n ɪ k oʊ ˈ m æ k i ə n /) is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent. Aristotle on Virtue. Aristotle holds the view that moral virtues are states of character lying at the mean between extremes of excess and deficiency. Introduction. the essays collected in this volume are the main documents for the illustration and exposition of John Stuart Mill’s thoughts on ethics and religion. The Doctrine of the Mean (Chinese: 中庸; pinyin: Zhōng yōng), is both a doctrine of Confucianism and also the title of one of the Four Books of Confucian philosophy. A survey of the history of Western philosophy. Although the virtues are habits of acting or dispositions to act in certain ways, Aristotle maintained that these. Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean (Originally appeared in History of Philosophy Quarterly 4/3, July 1987.) Aristotle's doctrine of the mean is sometimes dismissed as. 1. Preliminaries. Aristotle wrote two ethical treatises: the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics. He does not himself use either of these titles, although in.