Aristotle Flashcards
Birth and death
384 - 322 BC
Famous tutor to
Alexander the Great
Research & teaching center founded by Aristotle
The Lyceum
Name of Aristotle’s followers
Peripatetics - wanderers
Four central questions
What makes people happy?
What is art for?
What are friends for?
How can ideas cut through in a busy world?
Key ingredients of a good life
The golden mean
Knowing how to have a good conversation
Moral goodness
Virtues & Vices : Fear & Confidence
Deficiency : Cowardice - deilia
Mean : Courage - andreia
Excess : Rashness - thrasutes
Virtues & Vices : Pleasure & Pain
Deficiency : Insensibility - anaisthesia
Mean : Temperance - sophronsund
Excess : Licentiousness - akolasia
Virtues & Vices : Getting & Spending (minor)
Deficiency : Illiberality - aneleutheria
Mean : Liberality - eleutheriotes
Excess : Prodigality - asotia
Virtues & Vices : Getting & Spending (major)
Deficiency : Pettiness - mikroprepeia
Mean : Magnificience - megaloprepeia
Excess : Vulgarity - apeirokalia, banausia
Virtues & Vices : Honour & Dishonour (major)
Deficiency : Pusillanimity - mikropsuchia
Mean : Magnanimity - megalopsuchia
Excess : Vanity - chaunotes
Virtues & Vices : Honour & Dishonour (minor)
Deficiency : Unambitiousness - aphilotimia
Mean : Proper ambition
Excess : Ambition - philotimia
Virtues & Vices : Anger
Deficiency : Lack of spirit - aorgesia
Mean : Patience - praotes
Excess : Irascibility - orgilotes
Virtues & Vices : Self-expression
Deficiency : Understatement - eironeia
Mean : Truthfulness - aletheia
Excess : Boastfulness - alazoneia
Virtues & Vices : Conversation
Deficiency : Boorishness - agroikia
Mean : Wittiness - eutrapelia
Excess : Buffoonery - bomolochia
Virtues & Vices : Social Conduct
Deficiency : Cantankerousness - duskolia
Mean : Friendliness - philia
Excess : Obsequiousness - areskeia / Flattery - kolakeia
Virtues & Vices : Shame
Deficiency : Shamelessness - anaischuntia
Mean : Modesty - aidos
Excess : Shyness - kataplexis
Virtues & Vices : Indignation
Deficiency : Malicious enjoyment - epichairekakia
Mean : Righteous indignation - nemesis
Excess : Envy - phtonos
Famous playwrights
Aeschylus
Euripides
Sophocles
Artistotle’s guide to write great plays
The Poetics
Sophocles’ most famous play
Oedipus
The point of tragedy
catharsis - purging of emotions
The point of art
Make profound truths about life stick in our minds
The kinds of friendships
Fun seeking
Strategic acquaintances
True friend
Town square at the time
Agora
The art of getting people to agree with you
Rhetoric
Basics of rhetoric
Soothe people’s fears
Seeing the emotional side of the issue
Make it funny
Use illustrations and examples
