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    The document discusses the cardinal virtue of temperance and its application to gluttony. It explains that for centuries, moralists promoted moderation in eating, balancing pleasure with control over one's appetite. Table manners helped make meals a time for socializing rather than overindulgence. The document then discusses Aristotle's concept of the golden mean, where virtue involves avoiding deficiencies or excesses. It gives examples of health metrics like weight and blood pressure that are healthiest within a favorable range between potential deficiencies or excesses. The response explains that for Aristotle, virtue and happiness come from achieving excellence as a human by finding moderation between extremes like being obese or underweight.

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    The document discusses the cardinal virtue of temperance and its application to gluttony. It explains that for centuries, moralists promoted moderation in eating, balancing pleasure with control over one's appetite. Table manners helped make meals a time for socializing rather than overindulgence. The document then discusses Aristotle's concept of the golden mean, where virtue involves avoiding deficiencies or excesses. It gives examples of health metrics like weight and blood pressure that are healthiest within a favorable range between potential deficiencies or excesses. The response explains that for Aristotle, virtue and happiness come from achieving excellence as a human by finding moderation between extremes like being obese or underweight.

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    The document discusses the cardinal virtue of temperance and its application to gluttony. It explains that for centuries, moralists promoted moderation in eating, balancing pleasure with control over one's appetite. Table manners helped make meals a time for socializing rather than overindulgence. The document then discusses Aristotle's concept of the golden mean, where virtue involves avoiding deficiencies or excesses. It gives examples of health metrics like weight and blood pressure that are healthiest within a favorable range between potential deficiencies or excesses. The response explains that for Aristotle, virtue and happiness come from achieving excellence as a human by finding moderation between extremes like being obese or underweight.

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    Final Week2&3

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    The document discusses the cardinal virtue of temperance and its application to gluttony. It explains that for centuries, moralists promoted moderation in eating, balancing pleasure with control over one's appetite. Table manners helped make meals a time for socializing rather than overindulgence. The document then discusses Aristotle's concept of the golden mean, where virtue involves avoiding deficiencies or excesses. It gives examples of health metrics like weight and blood pressure that are healthiest within a favorable range between potential deficiencies or excesses. The response explains that for Aristotle, virtue and happiness come from achieving excellence as a human by finding moderation between extremes like being obese or underweight.

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    PATOS, ANGELYN D. BSBA FIN. MGMT.

    After watching Big Fat Brother devouring the 4 big cow’s hooves video clip above, what do you think is
    the cardinal virtue that he must observe? (5- 10 sentences).

    Temperance, one of the four cardinal virtues, was the almost unanimous response to the sin of gluttony.
    For several centuries, theologians, moralists and teachers extolled moderation. In fact, ancient dietetics,
    which recommended balance and moderation, followed the same vein. Although it was considered
    natural to experience pleasure when eating, it was, however, essential to control one’s appetite and
    behavior at the table, and to make meals a time for conviviality. Codifying table manners allowed for a
    managed fondness for food to be acceptable.

    How do you apply the principle of the Golden Mean by Aristotle? ( 5-10 sentences)

    As much of life is comprised of elements that are essential to human well-being in some quantity but
    could become harmful if pursued to excess. This is where Aristotle’s idea of the “golden mean” – of
    virtue as being neither a deficiency nor an excess of various necessary attributes – can be applied to the
    pursuit of health and longevity. Indeed, much of health consists of maintaining key bodily functions and
    metrics within favorable ranges of parameters. A healthy weight, healthy blood-sugar concentration,
    healthy blood pressure, and a healthy heart rate all exist as segments along spectra, bordered by other
    segments of deficiency and excess.

    For Aristotle virtue is happiness, it is also human excellence and to become an excellent human one
    must achieve virtue. Aristotle eye for the idea of “ you want to be happy you have to be in the moderate
    balance of your body weight”.

    He would likely tell us not to moderately aim to be in the healthy mean. Instead, he would probably
    suggest aiming to the other extreme of the diet and exercise. In order for the pull of being in one
    extreme (obese) to cause us to not fall onto the other extreme (skinny) but the mean of both extremes.

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