ETHICS 4

• gluttony


  if we routinely overindulge our cravings, we develop a vice.
• selflessness


  if we repeatedly allow others to serve themselves dinner before us, we develop a virtue
• seflessness


  "we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
• The golden mean


  when we're trying to work out what the virtuous thing to do in a particular situation is, look to what lies in the middle between two extreme forms of behaviour.
• The golden mean


  The mean will be the virtue, and the extremes at either end, vices.
• act as though they are already virtuous


  By imagining the kind of person we'd like to be and our aspirational identity and who we are at the moment.
• eudaimonia


  Ancient greek moral philosophy "happiness" or "flourishing" and occasionally as "well-being"
• virtue


  is a trait that contributes to or is a constinuent of eudaimonia and we ought to develop this.