Virtue Vs Aristotle Virtue

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When speaking of virtue most people think of someone who has high moral standards, and don’t think much else of it. Conversely, Aristotle puts much thought into what virtue is and what it means to be virtuous. He believes “that virtue is concerned with pleasures and pains, that it grows by the action of those things out of which it comes into being, or is destroyed by them when they do not happen in the same way, and that it is at work in connection with those things out of which it has come into being” (1105a 15). Aristotle explains that there are two different kinds of virtue, intellectual and moral, each of which is part of the rational portion of the human soul. Intellectual virtue is theoretical wisdom, and moral virtue is practical