Full Idea
If virtues are neither feelings nor faculties, it remains that they are dispositions.
Clarification
'Virtue' here is the Greek word 'areté', which also translates as 'excellence'
Gist of Idea
If virtues are not feelings or faculties, then they must be dispositions
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1106a10)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.99
A Reaction
Makng virtues into dispositions connects his moral theory to his accounts of potentialities and powers in his physics.