Aristotle does not elaborate on what a natural state is, but he obviously has in mind the healthy condition of the body, especially its sense faculties, and the virtuous condition of the soul.
That the virtuous person's soul is unified and not torn by conflict distinguishes the state of being virtuous from various non-virtuous conditions such as continence (enkrateia), incontinence (akrasia), and vice (kakia) in general.
Under optimized conditions, virtuous linearity of SLC was ranged from 30 to 4000 ng mL−1 with R2 of 0.99.
Creating the conditions for virtuous change is the real challenge of our times.
(Note: as explained above, Sosa (2007, ch. 2) later abandoned the safety condition on virtuous ("apt") belief and knowledge).
This configuration determines absolutely favourable conditions to establish virtuous relations between urban and natural processes, with special reference to the ecosystems still present in the peri-urban areas, including, in particular, agricultural land (Hough 1995; Tjallingii 2000; Diamantini 2006; Alberti 2008; Palazzo and Steiner 2012).
The perfection of one's rational nature is the condition of being virtuous and it is exercising this, and this alone, which is good.
He initially maintains that virtue entails happiness, and hence there is no need of an Afterlife since a virtuous person remains in the same condition whether dead or alive.
Eliminating a tyrant is not virtuous if one is knowingly creating even greater conditions of disorder and destruction.
We are conditioned to believe that it is virtuous to hide our strengths to save another from experiencing their weaknesses, to deny our blessings so that another avoids feeling their sorrows.
Under such conditions, Mencius' preachments to the princes on virtuous personal conduct and humane government fell on deaf ears; yet he continued to speak his mind, even though he knew that he was championing an unpopular cause.
