Aristotle’s View Of Virtue Theory And Contemporary Enlightenment

Aristotle had his own creative ideas in various research fields,specially in the field of ethics. According to his own era background, he constructed a set of complete virtue theory.Aristotle’s view production has its own historical background and theoretical background. The community of blood as the joint form laid the foundation for the States members to form the common customs. The need of city life laid the social background for the formation of Aristotle’s view. The practice of democratic politics provided the political background for the Aristotle’s view. And intellectual culture provided a good social atmosphere for the formation of virtue. An important source of Aristotle’s view were "Virtue is knowledge "of Socrates and "The four main morality" of Plato.In Aristotle’s view, virtue, the most fundamental concept in ancient Greek ethics system, is a state of affairs and the implementation of activities completed good quality. It is the outstanding soul. According to the presence or absence of logos part, he put the virtue divided into moral virtue and intellectual virtue, and also pointed out that the virtue had the characteristic of selective and noble.Aristotle’s view is a complete system. The mean thought is his virtue essence, which emphasizes the work should be moderate, not excessive or insufficient; He pointed out that happiness is the highest purpose of life, but the real happiness is the moral activity; The good legal could ensure the virtue cultivation and the perfect legal led people to accept the correct virtue; Justice,courage, temperance, friendship and so on are the specific aspects of virtue, especially justice, which is in the first place of the whole moral system.So studying Aristotle’view of virtue ethics, not only lying the foundation for the harmonious socialist society; providing the theoretical basis for true happiness,but also requires us to pay attention to improving the quality of citizens to cultivate qualified citizens; strengthen the construction of legal system, making the combination with ruling by law and ruling by virtue; establishment of social justice to maintain social stability; correct the social atmosphere to create the good atmosphere for the Telford unity.