A white, middle class, heterosexual, American-family from the 1950s is still the traditional family that many think of when they are asked about the ideal family. This is not because the other families are less important or not important at all. People tend to think the traditional family should look like that because of the way the television shows the audience and the perfect picture they draw of the American family in different historical periods. Aristotle’s morality theory consists in being virtuous in performing our function well to reach happiness because that is our ultimate good. Aristotle only talks about several virtues that constitute our happy life and that we must function excellent; because virtue is excellence.
There are many vices and virtues that according to Howard J. Curzer, Aristotle needs to include and fix about his theory. The article's purpose is to not to demonstrate that traditional families are right or wrong but to express how immoral they are. Howard J. Curzer gives several examples…show more content… Curzer states that the traditional role of husband and wife require select for, produce, and worsen Aristotelian moral vices due to the division of labor and power. Aristotle’s ultimate good is happiness. He believes that everything we do is a means towards something else and that something else is towards something else and so on until we reach happiness. Aristotle thinks that only a few people understand truly what happiness means. That is why he has two initial claims; the first claim is the nature if goodness in every kind. The first initial claim says that something cannot be good without having a function. So, if something is not doing its function correct than it does not have any meaning and it’s not good. The second initial function is the characteristic function; Aristotle believes that in order to reach happiness people should control their passions by
