@article{dd187059530c43c490706fa3a9716846,
title = "Aristotle on Physis: Human Nature in the Ethics and Politics",
author = "Ward, {Julie K.}",
note = "In EN II.1, Aristotle claims that our nature (physis) is inadequate for moral virtue. We are not, he says, in the same relation to virtue as a stone falling to earth; moral excellence is neither by nature nor contrary to our nature but reached by habituation (cf. 1103a15-20).",
year = "2005",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1163/20512996-90000081",
language = "American English",
volume = "22",
journal = "Polis: the journal for ancient greek political thought",
number = "2",
}