“Virtue is a middle state between two vices, aiming at what is best and right.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Chapter 6(Translated by W.D. Ross) 🔍 Core Idea Virtue is your life’s GPS navigation — it steers between reckless speeding (🚗💨) and paralyzing hesitation (🚗🐢), guiding you to the optimal route. Like a smartphone’s adaptive … Read more
“Virtue requires knowledge, choice, and a stable character; mere action is insufficient.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Chapter 4(Translated by W.D. Ross) 🔍 Core Idea Ethical living is a three-factor authentication system — knowledge (password), choice (SMS code), and character (fingerprint) must align. Like a smartphone rejecting forced smiles for FaceID, true virtue fails without … Read more
“Modesty is not a virtue, but the modest man is praised for moderation in shame.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Chapter 7(Translated by W.D. Ross) 🔍 Core Idea Modesty is social media’s privacy settings — oversharing (excessive shame) and ghosting (shamelessness) both fail, while ethical humility filters personal wins with context. Like calibrating a fitness … Read more
“Truthfulness is moderation in speech; excess is boastfulness, deficiency is self-deprecation.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Chapter 7 🔍 Core Idea Truthful speech is your smartphone’s voice memo — raw recordings (honesty) beat boastful filters (🎭) or muted whispers (🤫). Like calibrating video call audio to avoid echo and silence, ethical communication requires balanced self-expression. … Read more
“High-mindedness is moderation in honour; excess is vanity, deficiency is little-mindedness.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Chapter 7 🔍 Core Idea Honor is your smartphone’s screen brightness — max setting (✨ vanity) blinds others, minimum (🌑 little-mindedness) hides your worth. Ethical ambition works like adaptive display: shine when leading group projects, dim when crediting teammates. … Read more
“Virtue, then, is a habit or trained faculty of choice, the characteristic of which lies in moderation or observance of the mean.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Chapter 6 🔍 Core Idea Moral growth works like a video game health bar — every honest choice adds XP (eXperience Points), while shortcuts drain it. Your ethical … Read more