Aristotle Flashcards

Question

Aristotle’s view on household or family

Answer 1

Family is primary and essential unit of the state. It helps build society and maintain it. Household consist of husband, wife, children, slave and property There is a hierarchical relation in the family to maintain order and harmony. There are three kinds of her article relation in the family- Master-slave; husband-wife; Father-child. All three are different kinds of hierarchical relation. There is complete subordination of slave to the Master. But the wife is subordinate to husband. She is not like slave, she is independent as your husband. In household matter, she supersedes her husband . Only in matters of vital and economic decisions., husband’s view prevails. Father child relation is like king subject relation. But once children become adult, they not remain sub ordinate and become equal to their father.

Answer 2

Women or inferior to men, a complete defective Male Has reason but without authority and she has to be under command of male Women are freebeing, half a free man of the state, and their education, bringing up well-being must be ensured Women should be kept away from public Realm because their deliberative and decision-making capabilities were not fully developed In matters of household she is the master of the family

Answer 3

Yes. Considered it as integral part of household

Answer 4

Aristotle To him family is the Realm of personal or private, where is politics belongs to public life. He is criticise, especially by feminist to have created the dichotomy of personal versus public. It took thousands of years to break this duality.

Answer 5

Aristotle had supported the institution of slavery on natural, rational and social grounds. He had the view that some people or by nature submissive and others dominant. The people who Are submissive need guidance and ordered by somebody else for performing their functions. Slavery also fulfils a very important social Need. Play free their masters to participate in public affairs which required knowledge. By serving his master and taking care of all the routine affairs of his household, The slaves does an important duty towards the society.

Answer 6

Enslavement justified, only if slave lack virtue or reason, winning war and paying Debt shouldn’t be ground floor slavery Master must be more virtuous than the slave Slave should be treated well and should be made free for their good services Aristotle anticipated No need for slavery with technological advancements.

Answer 7

nicomachean ethics Eudemian ethics

Answer 8

Golden mean denotes appropriate response to feelings and situations. Virtue is temperance, moderation, balance in thought and action on face of different, feeling and circumstances. Principles of golden mean is to have a right response to different feelings and situations . Virtuous actsare those who are in between the two extreme responses. For example, courage is virtue which is in between cowardice and fool hardiness(deficient respond to fear)

Answer 9

Determining golden mean in each situation is like skilful craft. It can be learned only true life long practice. It should become part of one’s habit, then only golden mean becomes virtue.

Answer 10

Hi discarded the extremes of the ideal state, without any need of law and constitution, as conceived by Plato. He discarded the other extreme of a state in which lawlessness anarchy and chaos prevails. Instead, he chose the state which is less perfect than the platonic ideal state. The practice of a state which is based on formal laws and Constitution became the best practicable state for Aristotle

Answer 11

Women Slaves Alien Foreigner And those without property . To him being ethical, moral and virtuous is same as being good citizen . Only those who poses property, moral, ethical, and intellectual excellence, have virtue and have proper deliberative and decision-making capabilities are suited for citizenship

Answer 12

The word political in these phrases can have multiple meanings. In positive sense political may denote social arrangement in which laws are made in various social needs human lives of fulfilLed. In this sense, politics and sure is good life of community and fulfilled and florist life of individuals. If we take politics as game of interest and power, then politics denotes how humans are naturally inclined towards desire, ego and power . They are self interested, egoistic and try to dominate the weaker ones whenever they get the chance to do so. Whatever way we think of politics., humans are naturally seem to be a political animal

Answer 13

Politics Nicomechean ethics Eudemonian ethics Metaphysics, rhetoric On the soul

Answer 14

The philosopher First teacher The master of them that know