The Aristotle
Framework
Virtue Ethics & Systematic Inquiry
Aristotle advanced human understanding by treating curiosity as a daily discipline. Aristotle's method of inquiry — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The virtue ethics & systematic inquiry framework distils Aristotle's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Aristotle made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Aristotle's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Aristotle's thinking.
Excellence (arete) is not an act but a habit—virtue emerges through repeated practice of right action. True authority comes from systematic understanding of first principles, not position or charisma. The golden mean teaches that virtue lies between extremes, requiring practical wisdom (phronesis) to navigate specific contexts.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
What is the final cause—the ultimate purpose—of this action?
4 more questions in Aristotle's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Aristotle actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Aristotle's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Aristotle, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →aristotle.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →aristotle-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Aristotle. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.