While Aristotle’s view of ethics seems simpler than Kant’s deontology it is more demanding. In deontology Kant requires everyone to process their action through the categorical imperative. This process mostly works with bigger ethical decisions in life. Aristotle’s method is to work towards an ethical medium between two excesses. This requires daily work to build to and maintain an ethical medium. His process effects even small decisions like what to eat for breakfast, a decision that does not work well in the categorical imperative.
While Aristotle’s method requires daily work it seems to use than Kant’s. It requires analysis of many small factors of your life but as you work towards a good habit it becomes easy to maintain these good habits. These is also more leeway for decisions allowing for cheat options based on a type of lifestyle. If you work towards frugality with money it allows you to occasionally splurge and buy something unnecessarily expensive as a reward for hard work. Aristotle’s method has more demands for daily practice but gets easier with work and is allows for certain cheats.
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I think you have a lot of great information/analysis here of VE. If you want to turn this into paper 2, I think you’ll need to answer the “so what” question–why is it helpful/important to argue the VE is less demanding in the long than deontology/why is it helpful to see that it’s difficult in the beginning but eases up as time passes? The answer to that question should get you closer to an argument for paper 2!
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