The third and final section is a more speculative account of Aristotle's views on moral development, including a theory about the stages of virtue acquisition. The book begins with two detailed sections examining the virtues of character one by one: the first explores the virtues discussed in NE III.6-IV.8 the second is devoted to justice ( NE V), friendship ( NE VIII-IX), and the relationship between them. This is an extensive study of the individual virtues of character in the Nicomachean Ethics ( NE), with occasional references to the Eudemian Ethics, Magna Moralia and Rhetoric.
