Aristotle’s Golden Mean

I really enjoyed the exercise where I was allowed to read from Aristotle’s writing. It is really interesting to me that he pointed out some principles that are very basically biblical ones. That there are many different things that we experience at many different levels. There is an excess, a mean, and a deficiency. This relates directly to the fact that everything is good, but not everything is permissible, and also that we should practice moderation in everything. Enjoyment of life doesn’t mean we need as much as we can get of everything. You can have too much of a good thing, and really, instead of trying to have the most extreme level of a characteristic or of possession we need to try to live a balanced life. This would also help the world be a lot more equally distributive among the nations and the people of each country. If only we could all be content with what we need, rather than continuously searching for the excess.