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    Supports→Actions that hit the mean are constituents of living well, not merely instrumental means to a separate state of living well.

    The good life is composed of actions under headings such as honor and pleasure that achieve the mean.

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    To complete the notion of moral virtue we must consider the role reason plays in moral actions. Summing up at Book II.6, Aristotle says virtue is a disposition to choose, lying in the mean which is relative to us, determined by reason (1107a1). Since he is talking about choosing actions, he is focusing on the way moral virtue issues in actions. In turn, it is the role of practical wisdom (phronêsis) to determine choice. While moral virtues, virtues of character, belong to the part of the soul wh

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