Abstract

The Aristotelian ethical virtues represents a model of understanding the nature of the practical norm and the relationship that it has with its object of reference, that is, praxis. In this paper, the model will be analyzed from two interpretive currents, called universalist and particularist, and a balance will be presented between both interpretative theses, emphasizing that under the Aristotelian perspective the practical norm never reaches the plane of individual action, and therefore, that for Aristotle, it is the habitual dispositions that form the primary objects of normative determination, which does not exclude a certain universal scope imposed by the presence of λόγος as a constitutive element of such habitual dispositions.