Virtue And Paideia

I study Aristotle's ethical thoughts from the version of the paideia. Aristotle tells us that happiness is the end of our lives, and happiness depends on the actualization---the full realization---of one's rationality, so it is an activity of soul in accordance with perfect virtue. He thinks that logos is involved in two ways in our soul, as directing and as amemability to direction. Relatively, there are two virtues: directing virtue (intellectual virtue), and virtue in being directed (moral virtue). Aristotle recognizes that the virtues are built up from the paideia. Therefore, firstly he discusses how reason enters the Non-rational components on our soul and how we realize our good or happiness. Happiness must be explained in terms of reason, one distinctive function or activity of human being. Secondly he studies how the intellectual virtues are developed. By analyzing the two virtues, Aristotle concludes it is the paideia that we should embrace. The theory of Aristotle's paideia is a complete system.