C4: Lesson 1

Question 1

___ is an approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue (often conceived
as ___) as fundamental.

Answer 1

Virtue ethics; excellence

Question 2

___ is primarily concerned with traits of
character that are essential to human flourishing, not with the enumeration of duties

Answer 2

Virtue ethics

Question 3

___is the ethical framework that is concerned with understanding the good as a
matter of developing the virtuous character of person.

Answer 3

VIRTUE

Question 4

Focused on the formation of one’s character brought about by determining and
doing virtuous act

Answer 4

Virtue

Question 5

The two major thinkers of Ancient Greece, __ and ___ , had
discourses concerning virtue.

Answer 5

Plato and Aristotle

Question 6

Aristotle book entitled ___ is the first comprehensive and
programmatic study of virtue of Ethics

Answer 6

Nicomachean Ethics

Question 7

Both Plato and Aristotle affirm ___as the
highest faculty of a person and having such characteristic enable of a person
to realize the very purpose of her existence.

Answer 7

rationality

Question 8

For ___the real is outside the realm of any human sensory experience, but
somehow grasped by one’s intellect

Answer 8

Plato

Question 9

For ___REAL is found within our everyday encounter with objects in
the world. What makes nature intelligible is its character of having both form
of matter

Answer 9

Aristotle

Question 10

The ___and the __cannot exist apart from the object and are not
independent of our experience.

Answer 10

truth; good

Question 11

___ means purpose/goal

Answer 11

Telos

Question 12

every matter looks for its form

Answer 12

aristotle’s metaphysics

Question 13

he was concerned with understanding the principle of change from potentiality to actuality through reason (logos)

Answer 13

aristotle’s metaphysics

Question 14

in this change intervene four causes:

___ cause= matter
___ cause = agent
___ cause= form/shape
___ cause= purpose

Answer 14

material
efficient
formal
final

Question 15

(person)– “every act that a person does is directed toward a particular
purpose, aim on what the Greeks called ___

Answer 15

Aristotle; TELOS

Question 16

For Aristotle ___is considered to be the telos or purpose for which all acts
seek to achieve.

Answer 16

Good

Question 17

the key idea in aristotle’s natural law is that there is an unchanging order (principle) to the changing physical world.

Answer 17

Telos (end/purpose)

Question 18

by understanding this order we can learn what is natural for something or someone to do, to be, or become

Answer 18

Telos (end/purpose)

Question 19

___ is found when things fulfill their purpose

Answer 19

Supreme good

Question 20

Aristotle discusses the general criteria in order for one to recognize the highest good
of man. (2)

Answer 20

FIRST THE HIGHEST GOOD OF A PERSON MUST BE FINAL;
SECOND THE ULTIMATE TELOS OF A PERSON MUST BE SELF SUFFICIENT.

Question 21

What goal is both final and self sufficient? It is interesting to note that
for Aristotle, the question can only be adequately answered by _____because they have gone through enormous and challenging
life experiences which helped them gain a wealth of knowledge.

Answer 21

older individuals

Question 22

Other individuals would agree that the highest purpose and the ultimate
good of a man is happiness or for the Greeks, ____means
happiness (Greeks)

Answer 22

EUDAIMONIA

Question 23

__, ___, and ___ are not chosen for themselves but for the
sake of being a means to achieve happiness

Answer 23

Wealth, Power, and Pleasures

Question 24

____for Aristotle is the only self-sufficient aim that one can
aspire for.

Answer 24

Happiness

Question 25

For Aristotle what defines human beings is her ___ or ___

Answer 25

function or activity of
reason