//On Virtues and Vices
Thoughts after Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle
In this book, Aristotle discusses the nature of virtues and vices. How they play in our lives, and how they are just a case of moderation and vices are the result of having too much or lacking of said values. The main goal is to stay in the perfect ratio of the value. The example can be explained with ambition: Too much ambition may be perceived as being greedy and having too little may be perceived as indolence. With that, I have some thoughts and opinion regarding the matter.
For this topic, I will choose the virtue of being patient. Patience is a virtue with strong relationship with endurance. The ability to endure and control one’s impulse to act, with the perception of there will be a better time to act. However, being patient also means to acknowledge the want inside of an individual to act upon the emotion, but able to hold it for a better good. Being patient for most of the time are not done for pleasure or voluntarily, but rather out of necessary. It then can be looked through this perspective:
An individual being patient, and refusing to act upon his/her emotion can be interpreted as an act of dishonesty at one-self. However, dishonesty is more of a vice than a virtue. But when framed under the perfect light, it becomes the virtue of patience. I realized that in this scenario someone can be patient without in a state of denial and being dishonest to one-self, but I believe those states are rare, as we are creatures of impulse.