Full Idea
The mean is relative to US (as an average diet is too small for Milo the wrestler).
Gist of Idea
The mean is relative to the individual (diet, for example)
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1106a32)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.100
A Reaction
Does that mean that if I am a dreadful coward, then achieving a tiny bit of courage will enough to qualify me as courageous? Surely there is something absolute (or external) about the required courage?