"(1105a15-16) Hursthouse also summarizes Aristotle's theory about virtue in the same way, asserting that the appropriate feelings are actually what define an action as virtuous: And, according to virtue ethics, the agent with the inappropriate feelings does not act virtuously, in the very way or manner that the virtuous agent acts."(Hursthouse, 125) The theory Aristotle proposes of virtue is continued by his definition of the human soul and its 'contents'
¶ … perceive as Aristotle's best work known work on ethics, Nichomachean Ethics, sheds light on what Aristotle believed was happiness. "…happiness would seem to need this sort of prosperity added also; that is why some people identify happiness with good fortune, while others < eacting from one extreme to the other> identify it with virtue" (Aristotle, Irwin, & Fine, p