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Aristotle Flashcards

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Birth and death

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384 - 322 BC

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Famous tutor to

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Alexander the Great

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Research & teaching center founded by Aristotle

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The Lyceum

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Name of Aristotle’s followers

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Peripatetics - wanderers

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Four central questions

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What makes people happy?
What is art for?
What are friends for?
How can ideas cut through in a busy world?

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Key ingredients of a good life

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The golden mean
Knowing how to have a good conversation
Moral goodness

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Virtues & Vices : Fear & Confidence

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Deficiency : Cowardice - deilia
Mean : Courage - andreia
Excess : Rashness - thrasutes

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Virtues & Vices : Pleasure & Pain

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Deficiency : Insensibility - anaisthesia
Mean : Temperance - sophronsund
Excess : Licentiousness - akolasia

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Virtues & Vices : Getting & Spending (minor)

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Deficiency : Illiberality - aneleutheria
Mean : Liberality - eleutheriotes
Excess : Prodigality - asotia

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Virtues & Vices : Getting & Spending (major)

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Deficiency : Pettiness - mikroprepeia
Mean : Magnificience - megaloprepeia
Excess : Vulgarity - apeirokalia, banausia

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Virtues & Vices : Honour & Dishonour (major)

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Deficiency : Pusillanimity - mikropsuchia
Mean : Magnanimity - megalopsuchia
Excess : Vanity - chaunotes

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Virtues & Vices : Honour & Dishonour (minor)

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Deficiency : Unambitiousness - aphilotimia
Mean : Proper ambition
Excess : Ambition - philotimia

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Virtues & Vices : Anger

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Deficiency : Lack of spirit - aorgesia
Mean : Patience - praotes
Excess : Irascibility - orgilotes

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Virtues & Vices : Self-expression

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Deficiency : Understatement - eironeia
Mean : Truthfulness - aletheia
Excess : Boastfulness - alazoneia

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Virtues & Vices : Conversation

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Deficiency : Boorishness - agroikia
Mean : Wittiness - eutrapelia
Excess : Buffoonery - bomolochia

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Virtues & Vices : Social Conduct

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Deficiency : Cantankerousness - duskolia
Mean : Friendliness - philia
Excess : Obsequiousness - areskeia / Flattery - kolakeia

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Virtues & Vices : Shame

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Deficiency : Shamelessness - anaischuntia
Mean : Modesty - aidos
Excess : Shyness - kataplexis

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Virtues & Vices : Indignation

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Deficiency : Malicious enjoyment - epichairekakia
Mean : Righteous indignation - nemesis
Excess : Envy - phtonos

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Famous playwrights

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Aeschylus
Euripides
Sophocles

20
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Artistotle’s guide to write great plays

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The Poetics

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Sophocles’ most famous play

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Oedipus

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The point of tragedy

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catharsis - purging of emotions

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The point of art

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Make profound truths about life stick in our minds

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The kinds of friendships

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Fun seeking
Strategic acquaintances
True friend

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Town square at the time

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Agora

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The art of getting people to agree with you

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Rhetoric

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Basics of rhetoric

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Soothe people’s fears
Seeing the emotional side of the issue
Make it funny
Use illustrations and examples

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