Aristotle’s Definition of Moral Virtue: Genus and Differentia

Abstract

Under the definition of moral virtue to Aristotle mainly from the “genus” and “differentia” moral virtue of two aspects. Define the essence of a thing is the concept of the provisions of the general is the most classic is the “definition =genus + differentia”. That is the definition of a thing explanation, first find out what kind of belongs to the concept that this type of thing universality; and which also have their respective different things or that they own feature, this is the case worse. In a nutshell is, the first thing to classify, that is, he has the universality, and then again to its unique characteristics, which are the personalization will be summarized thus distinguished.