According to Aristotle, please describe moral and intellectual virtues in a way i can understand.?

Answer 1

Knowing if you are capable of conceptualizing these ideas is really something I cannot predict. But good luck. You must start somewhere.

Intellectual Virtue:
Aristotle analyzed virtues into moral and intellectual virtues (dianoetic virtues, the Greek aretai dianoetikai). In the Posterior Analytics and Nicomachean Ethics he identified five intellectual virtues - as the five ways the soul arrives at truth by affirmation or denial. He grouped them into three classes:

Theoretical:
Sophia -i.e. wisdom of the eternal and unchangeable, philosophical wisdom.
Episteme -i.e. scientific knowledge, empirical knowledge.
Nous -i.e. intuitive understanding.
Practical:
Phronesis -i.e. practical wisdom/prudence.
Productive:
Techne -i.e. craft knowledge, art, skill.

Subjacent intellectual virtues in Aristotle:

Euboulia. Deliberating well, deliberative excellence. Thinking properly about the right end.
Sunesis. Understanding, sagacity, consciousness of why something is as it is. - e.g the understanding you have of why a situation is as it is, prior to having phronesis - understanding of what to do about it -i.e what is the best action.
Gnomê. Judgement and consideration. Virtue which allows people to make equitable or fair decisions.
Deinotes. Cleverness. The ability to carry out actions so as to achieve a goal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_virtues#Aristotle



Moral:
Morality refers to the concept of human ethics which pertains to matters of good and evil —also referred to as "right or wrong", used within three contexts: individual conscience; systems of principles and judgments — sometimes called moral values —shared within a cultural, religious, secular, Humanist, or philosophical community; and codes of behavior or conduct morality.

Personal morality defines and distinguishes among right and wrong intentions, motivations or actions, as these have been learned, engendered, or otherwise developed within each individual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Philosophy

Answer 2

moral- to achieve what aristotle calls eudaimonia (happiness) although this is not achieved through objects or desire, since it is too short lived for true happiness.
also intelectually aristotle said we are rational animal. he had a very conservative view on woman for the time unlike plato who said some women were even philosophic (very radical for 2500 years ago).
aristotle wrote on logic biology metaphysics the guy did so much.
he beleived we could get knowledge through the senses (empiricist) and mind (rationalist, like plato) so i guess he was a mixture of both. he thought human achievement could best be fufilled in society.
another good word the guy above me forgot is telos. means purpose.

Answer 3

Well, you can look at life bluntly and you can look at life through shimmering eyes. Your choice.