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Sts 2a Reading Comprehension
Sts 2a Reading Comprehension
2. Pleasure - Happiness
- In pleasure it can be neither good or bad because of natural accompaniment of
unimpeded activity. Happiness depends on acquiring a moral character, where one displays the
virtues of courage, generosity, justice, friendship, and citizenship in one's life. These virtues
involve striking a balance or "mean" between an excess and a deficiency which happiness is not
pleasure, nor is it virtue. It is the exercise of virtue.
3. Virtue – Vice
- Vice is a result when people give in to temptation while virtue is the character traits
people exhibit when they can resist temptation. Therefore, virtue is a act for reasons as vice is the
quality that prevents a thing from achieving its final end.