Honestly, I find Aristotle to be very confusing. I don't always understand that overall picture of Book II or many of the points he makes throughout it. However, I did find it interesting how explains the "intermediate." We have our own definitions and ideas of what things like courage or boastfulness are, but when I look at courage as being the intermediate between and excess (rashness) and a deficiency (cowardliness) it definitely gave me a better understanding. We can look at anythings as an intermediate, but we also must remember how this intermediate is not universal. Just as Aristotle explained the intermediate between 10 and 2 is 6 in arithmetical proportion, but not in the amount of food a person can eat. I think that this idea is still used today. We look for a "middle ground" according to our situation, an intermediate.
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