COMMUNITY - the means to the good life is inseparably bound to the community in which one lives.  "The state is prior to the individual."
        The good life for a human being is attained only within a community of others through habituation/training.  People are born neither good nor bad; we have the capacity to develop the virtues and must do so through training, in much the same way that any human excellence is developed. For example, one does not become a good harp player, or player of any instrument, without practice.

CHARACTER - The virtues are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature.  That is, again, we are born neither good nor bad.  The virtues (human excellences) are developed by practice.  The virtues are opposed to defect (deficiency and excess) - this is related to Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean.
    The excellence of a thing is determined by its appropriate function leading toward a goal.

CONSEQUENCES - What is the goal of all things?  To move from potentiality to actuality; to move from imperfection to (more) perfection.
    By what can you judge when something is good?  Look for its function.  For anything, whether natural or artificial, if it has a function, when it functions well, it is a good thing; when it does not function well, when it does not do or become what it is supposed to become, then it is not a good thing (it is not excellent), and so falls short of its goal.
    So, what is the function or goal of a human being?
            It is not a life of "nutrition and growth"
            It is not a life of gratification or pleasure seeking.
            It is not a life of honor-seeking.
            It is a life fit for the dignity and value of a human being - it is the employment of rationality toward happiness.
                    Somehow, then, human function (raitonality) and the human goal (happiness) converge.

WHAT IS HAPPINESS, FOR ARISTOTLE?
    An activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue....
        Activity is movement
        The soul's function is to think/reason.
            The virtue of a thing is found in its function.  The more a thing exists consistently with its function, the "better" that thing is.

WHY ARE VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS RELATED?
    The notion is "to be all that you can be"
        Development of capacities is a central concern
            A life appropriate, fit for a human being is necessary
                The good life is complete in itself, self-sufficient

WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF RIGHT/GOOD ACTION?
    Must be in the mean - avoid excess and deficiency - not an arithmetical mean
        The actor must know what he is doing
            The actor must decide to do it
                The actor must act from a firm and unchanging character

SOME COMMENTS ON THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF A'S ETHICS
    Not an exact science, and cannot be
        Is the good of a thing the same as the good for a thing?
               The voluntary and involuntary and moral responsibility

VOLUNTARY/INVOLUNTARY
    Compulsory - force/through ignorance
    Voluntary - deliberate choice/in ignorance
    Mixed actions