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<Tab/>Aristotle's Theory of virtues Virtues, according to Aristotle, are those strengths of character that promote 'eudomania' (human flourishing). A good action is a product of these virtues. A person is virtuous in so far as he acts with the goal of human flourishing in view. Aristotle's theory revolves around character rather than around the actions themselves. For Aristotle, Virtue is something practiced and thereby learned - it is habit (hexis) …

…He says, "For instance, both fear and confidence and appetite and anger and pity and in general pleasure and pain may be felt both too much and too little, and in both cases not well; but to feel them at the right times, with reference to the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive, and in the right way, is what is both intermediate and best, and this is characteristic of virtue