Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 1–5: only that which is most important for demonstrating hexis to you and, at the same time, for clarifying a basic concept of the Nicomachean Ethics, the mesotes. mesotes is not some kind of “mediocrity,” not a determination of human actions in which it would amount to mediocrity, not a so-called “bourgeois morality,” not a principle of “ranking values”; but rather a basic relation to hexis, and so to the being-there of human beings, to praxis, and so to the kairos. The Nicomachean Ethics is altogether different from the ethics of a mediocre averageness and from the conventional .