... part, however, which is concerned with appetites and simple desires, listens to and obeys reason. Since Aristotle closely ties reason with virtue, he decided to focus mainly on this, more human, part. Aristotle finds it necessary to divide this more human part into another two parts, one, which consists of reason in itself, and the other which listens to reason (1103a-2). It is these two new parts that Aristotle associates with virtue. Aristotle associates the part of the soul with reason (i.e. wisdom, comprehension and prudence) with what he calls "virtue of thought" and the other non-rational part of the soul (I.e. generosity and temperance) with what he calls virtue of character (1103a-8). Although Aristotle states that we need both virtue of character and virtue of thought to achieve full virtue, we will first examine what virtue of character is. Aristotle reasons that since there are ...

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