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True or False: Each virtue is usually flanked by two vices, one deficiency and one excess, but usually one of these vices is much more likely to ensnare a moral agent.

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According to Aristotle, each virtue is flanked by two vices, one deficiency and one excess. However, one of these vices is usually more likely to ensnare a moral agent.

Step-by-step explanation:

True. according to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, each virtue is usually flanked by two vices, one deficiency and one excess. However, one of these vices is usually much more likely to ensnare a moral agent. Aristotle describes virtue as the mean between the deficiency and excess, and gives the example of bravery as a virtue that lies between cowardice and rashness. In this way, the virtuous action is the golden mean, neither too much nor too little.

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