It uses the analogy of an archer to describe how a magnanimous man exercises the Doctrine of the Mean, and it argues that the end goal of life is happiness, or eudemonia.
Book One of this work posits that the irrational soul consists of "vegetative" and "ethical" parts. One part of it outlines the five dispositions of the soul, or hexis. It examines the third type of action, the non-voluntary, in another section that claims that choice, will, and deliberation are characteristic of both positive and negative actions. This work argues that contemplative wisdom can only be obtained after all other moral virtues are present. It uses the analogy of an archer to describe how a magnanimous man exercises the Doctrine of the Mean, and it argues that the end goal of life is happiness, or eudemonia. For 10 points, name this ethical treatise by Aristotle named after his son.
Book One of this work posits that the irrational soul consists of "vegetative" and "ethical" parts.
{Nicomachean Ethics} or {Ethika Nikomacheia}