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situated to win honor, or by those poor souls who suffer
a misfortune so severe that their mobility cannot shine
through. His idea of soul is translated as life. He has
three forms of life: vegetable, animal (human really),
even vegetables have sould by his definition. The highest
form of the sould is in human and the highest activity of
the souls of humans concerns the use of their intelligence
or mind. As an aside, we will later find out that some
of the hard materialists see mind and brain as the same. He,
like Bergson, would say that mind is a coat and brain is a
a coat hook. He had the same idea of mind that most of us
do. The last of the four key words, viture, agai e cate-
gorizes into two types: intellectual virtues and moral
virtues. Intellectual virtues are based on the broad meaning
of reason. In the Greek simile man's reason would be to him
as the navigator of a ship would be to the ship. One of
the things about intellectual virtures is you canot get too
much of them, you cannot two-block them. A statesman cannot
have too much wisdom. Moral virtues on the other hand are
those in which a mean should be struck. Now a mean by
Aristotle's use here is not a compromise, he's not a fence
sitter. It's as though he were aiming at the center of the
target. Courage is thus bordered by rashness on one side
and cowardice on the other, and balance of true courage is
established by practical wisdom. Reason is not always the
key to moral virtues. The Greeks would say they're irrational.