Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Virtue then is a state apt to exercise deliberate choice, being in the relative mean, determined by reason.”
- Source
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Date
- 4th century BCE
- English wording
- D. P. Chase — Translator · from Ancient Greek
Meaning of “Virtue then is a state apt to exercise…”
Virtue is treated as a stable capacity for deliberate choice, guided by practical judgment rather than by extremes of impulse or deficiency.
Where does it come from?
Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Chapter VI; the public-domain English translation defines virtue through deliberate choice and the relative mean.
