The science that studies the social aspects of human nature, in particular, how human beings organize their collective activities. One possesses a virtue when one has the relevant disposition, whether or not one ever has the opportunity to put the disposition into action. A natural tendency or fitness to become something higher or richer in structure. For example, the acorn has the potentiality to become an oak tree, the baby the potentiality of becoming a statesman or mathematician. An external thing whose creation is the object of an activity.
Shoes are the product of shoemaking, money is the product of commercial business.
The intellectual virtue that enables one to make the right choices about what to do. A rule or guideline or law of nature, which we grasp by thinking correctly. The structure and mutual accomodation of the body's parts by which the body is able to fulfill its natural functions, such as nutrition, sensation, movement, and thought. Only human beings have rational souls, souls that include intellect or understanding. A state is a sovereign, independent and largely self-sufficient society, with some kind of political organization or constitution.