16TH AUGUST AT 7.00 PM "ARISTOTLE AND THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS: THE GOOD WILL" AT BOYD COMMUNITY HUB, SOUTHBANK

Virtue, then, is of two kinds, intellectual and moral. Intellectual virtue owes both its inception and its growth chiefly to instruction, and for this very reason needs time and experience. Moral goodness, on the other hand, is the result of habit, from which it has actually got its name, being a slight modification of the word ethos.”

The Nicomachean Ethics, p. 31

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged is not, like others, theoretical in its aim – because we are studying not to know what goodness is, but how to become good men, since otherwise it would be useless – we must apply our minds to the problem of how our actions should be performed, because, as we have just said, it is these that actually determine our dispositions.”

The Nicomachean Ethics, p. 33

“Actions that we initiate ourselves, whether they are good or bad, are voluntary”

The Nicomachean Ethics, p. 61