Rash Per Aristotle Character Analysis
The moral issue that I will be talking about is when someone believes that they are ill or not in good standing and they try to hide everything from everyone around. My uncle and grandmother both hide they were battling cancer until it was too late. My grandmother was taking care of by my grandfather and all her finances were taking care of by him. While my uncle took care of everything and he could act like everything's going well, until after his death the family realized he wasn’t and now we are helping my aunt take of everything. If I was in the position and felt something was off, or I found out that I had a new medical condition, how would I go about with it? Would I tell my family, or would I keep it to myself, and would I get all my
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Let’s talk about the extreme of excess first. Extreme of excess is having too much which per Aristotle it’s a character flaw. The first virtue is courage which has an extreme of excess as rash (person). Rash per Aristotle is known to be too brave, which means having too much braveness inside, as a virtuous person would have less and/or an equal amount of brave (courage). Also, a rash (person) is more than hasty without though. “…rash people are impetuous, wishing for danger before they arrive, but they shrink from them they come” (Aristotle, 42) Rash people want the danger and problems but once they really must face it they cannot. Therefore, they are often called a boaster, where the person imitates being brave or they are called a pretender. Example on how this could be shown is how I don’t tell me family about an illness or my financial problems because I don’t think it’s not as bad as it is, also that I can handle everything on my own. I don’t need anyone around me to help me. But in contrary I can’t handle everything once I must start facing the problem, I become a rash person believing that I can handle everything on my own but in reality I can’t. I can act hastily without thought by tell everything is fine when isn’t and tell them that they can stop asking and worrying about
Let’s talk about the extreme of excess first. Extreme of excess is having too much which per Aristotle it’s a character flaw. The first virtue is courage which has an extreme of excess as rash (person). Rash per Aristotle is known to be too brave, which means having too much braveness inside, as a virtuous person would have less and/or an equal amount of brave (courage). Also, a rash (person) is more than hasty without though. “…rash people are impetuous, wishing for danger before they arrive, but they shrink from them they come” (Aristotle, 42) Rash people want the danger and problems but once they really must face it they cannot. Therefore, they are often called a boaster, where the person imitates being brave or they are called a pretender. Example on how this could be shown is how I don’t tell me family about an illness or my financial problems because I don’t think it’s not as bad as it is, also that I can handle everything on my own. I don’t need anyone around me to help me. But in contrary I can’t handle everything once I must start facing the problem, I become a rash person believing that I can handle everything on my own but in reality I can’t. I can act hastily without thought by tell everything is fine when isn’t and tell them that they can stop asking and worrying about