Good to get in a habit

In class we discuss about being mean with virtues. The examples were understandable after thinking about them. Having courage without knowing what to do or how to help is consisted to be recklessness, because wanting to help does not work with not knowing how to help, which could be dangerous and unsafe for the people that are in the situation and the person that wants to be heroic. On the other hand there could be someone that does know what to do, but does not use his/her skills in a situation that could require that person’s skill, which I believe that person would be referred to as the coward. All though it was not described in the why I stated the word cowardice. I found that the man with a gun example was helpful in the way that shows courage to stop the man by many ways. Coming up with solutions to stop the man for shooting anyone or save most of them. There was potential to have courage to stop the man with the gun, but they were just ideas or suggests for that situation. In reality not many people had experience a case where they can truly becoming courage. Aristotle describes virtue as a state that decides, consisting in a mean, the mean relative to us, which is defined by reason, and the reason in reference to which the intelligent person would define. In other words, a virtue like courage can be developed by experience and with more and more experience a virtue can be a habit. When a virtue is embedded into a person, that person has the knowledge and experience to handle a situation that he/she have dealt with in a previous. I do think that Aristotle is correct when he is referring to having virtues, because a person cannot be called courageous if that person has never been courageous before even though that person has an idea about being courageous in a situation like the man with a gun that person would possible do nothing or could be reckless.