| Phi 110 Fall 2015 |
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I will again encourage you make as much use of Irwin’s glossary as you have time for on top of the reading. Our discussion will focus on the following topics:
• the relation of reason to desire
• the role of habituation and the relation of actions to character
• the definition of virtue (i.e., its genus and differentia)—in connection with book 2, ch. 5, you should look at the entry for ‘state’ in the glossary (it’s on p. 349), and you should pay special attention to §§ 10–12 and § 15 of book 2, ch. 6
• as you read bk. 2, ch. 7, try to imagine what the chart Aristotle refers to might have looked like (also see Irwin’s note on p. 199 about this reference).
Aristotle offers more detailed accounts of the specific virtues beginning in book 3, ch. 6 and running through the whole of book 4 (pp. 40-67). I won’t be assigning much of this material, but I encourage you to pick one of the virtues and look at his later discussion of it; they appear in the same order as in book 2, ch. 7, and each discussion is a few pages at most.