1. Select a “Virtue of Character” from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Book III,
chapter 6 – Book V, chapter 11 (pages 47-101 in the Irwin translation). For example,
you could choose “Decency” which is Book V, chapter 10 on pages 98-99 of the Irwin
translation. Another example would be “Calmness” which is Book IV, chapter 5 on
pages 71-73. But, choose the one that you find most interesting.
2. Provide an explanation/commentary on the passage that you have chosen. Briefly
quote the text when it is helpful to provide support for your descriiption.
3. The following link has attempted to do this in a shorter fashion than I want you to but
might be instructive for helping you to understand what I am looking for:
https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Nicomachean-Ethics/book-5-summary/. If you follow
the link, you will see that the section on “decency” is 83 words long. So, it is too short
but the general idea is the same: read the text, try to understand what it is saying and
communicate your understanding to your audience (in this case me).
