Concepts of East and West Main ideas

Question 1

Who has this idea?: Man is a Political Animal?

Answer 1

Aristotle

Question 2

What is the concept of Eudaimonia

Answer 2

Sparked by Aristotle, it is the activity to live a flourishing life

Question 3

Who is credited with “Rationality as the ideal form of life?

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

What does Rationality as the ideal form of life mean?

Answer 4

Proper debate, seeing through conflicting ideas to reach the truth

Question 5

How do we reach happiness according to Aristotle?

Answer 5

By each having an idea of virtue and striving for what is fine and good

Question 6

According to Aristotle what was the number 1 virtue of character a person should have

Answer 6

Bravery in the face of certain defeat

Question 7

What does Prohairesis mean?

Answer 7

Choice and/or decision

Question 8

According to Aristotle what are the two main forms of choice that makes up humanities will?

Answer 8

Long term deliberations and quick snap decisions

Question 9

What makes a good Self-Lover?

Answer 9

One who pursues the fine above all else, prefers to give rather than receive

Question 10

What are the three kinds of friendship?

Answer 10

Complete Friendship, Friendships of Utility, Friendships of pleasure

Question 11

Define Complete Friendship

Answer 11

Two whole complete people who are both striving for what is fine and virtuous

Question 12

Define Friendship of Utility

Answer 12

Companionship with regards to social interactions where you can get something out of it. Friends with a farmer so you can get wheat, or friendship with a blacksmith to get a sword

Question 13

Define Friendships of Pleasure

Answer 13

People you just like to hangout with cuz they’re cool and ya like ‘em

Question 14

What was Augustine’s original religion

Answer 14

Paganistic

Question 15

What did Augustine switch religions to

Answer 15

Catholic

Question 16

What was the true reason why Augustine wrote the confessions

Answer 16

It was almost like an autobiography for his life and choices

Question 17

Why did Augustine hate Aristotle’s take on power

Answer 17

He hated the idea that only the wisest should be in power, he hates that those who practice self-mastery is an affront to god

Question 18

What does Augustine think the link between ruling power and sin is

Answer 18

Any who become into positions of power becomes tyrannical whether they want to or not

Question 19

What is Augustine’s driving question throughout most of Confessions?

Answer 19

Why would god create sin?

Question 20

What does Augustine make of human nature?

Answer 20

Human nature relates to the whole of the cosmos, everything has a purpose and a place in the world

Question 21

What is consciousness split up into three parts according to Augustine

Answer 21

Memory, Understanding and Will

Question 22

What three parts of the human soul make up a person according to Augustine

Answer 22

Body, Irrational Soul, Rational Soul

Question 23

What group does Augustine hate because they technically worship two god

Answer 23

The Manicheans

Question 24

What are the two kinds of love according to Augustine?

Answer 24

Love of Self vs Love of God, and Covetousness

Question 25

What does Covetousness mean?

Answer 25

Fleeting but simply delightful love, a passing fancy or brief mood of joy

Question 26

What is Love of Self and Love of God mean?

Answer 26

When humans tend to deify our loved ones in a comparison to god

Question 27

Who in the FLYING FUCK is Victor Inus?

Answer 27

A very smart intellectual who converted to Christianity because of Augustines writing. This was a major conversion in the world of these boring ass philosophers

Question 28

What did Augustine think about human conversion?

Answer 28

Conversion of the soul cannot happen without the influence of gods.

Question 29

How do we heal our souls according to Augustine?

Answer 29

We must confess our life’s story to God so that he may forgive us and release us from the ghost’s of our past

Question 30

What was Mengzi a follower of?

Answer 30

Confucianism

Question 31

Which dynasty did Confucius and Mengzi spend their most time in?

Answer 31

The Zhou Dynasty

Question 32

What is the Dao?

Answer 32

The Dao, aka The Way. Is a confuscian belief about the proper way to live life properly

Question 33

What is the main idea of the Dao?

Answer 33

There is a main idea that there is a way or path to life, a way to doing things or a method, but it particularly means a path towards religion and their lives

Question 34

What is Qi

Answer 34

CHI, is the natural energy of a person’s life force. Mengzi believed if you unblocked your chi you’d have an easier time of following the way

Question 35

What are the four main virtues for Mengzi

Answer 35

Benevolence (REN). Righteousness (YI), Honoring Traditions (LI). Wisdom (ZHI)

Question 36

What is Filial Piety

Answer 36

A family focused way of living to honor family traditions

Question 37

What was Mengzi’s take on Human Nature

Answer 37

Human Nature is naturally good

Question 38

How did Mengzi think world peace would be achieved

Answer 38

If everyone followed Confuscianism

Question 39

Mengzi on Rightness Vs Benefit

Answer 39

Mengzi fucking hated Benefit, but he loved Rightness

Question 40

What are the three major Ideals of the world

Answer 40

Deontology, Consequentialism, Virtue Ethics

Question 41

What is Deontology

Answer 41

The idea to always do what is right, the standard of right is the way of life

Question 42

What is Consequentialism

Answer 42

A matter of morality, morality depends on the results of what you do. Whatever is the most beneficial is what you should do

Question 43

What is Virtue Ethics

Answer 43

Focuses on the question of what is human ethics, they derive their principles based off what they think is morally right

Question 44

What does Mengzi relate human cultivation to?

Answer 44

Bean Sprouts

Question 45

What are the four sprouts of Morality?

Answer 45

The Sprout of Benevolence, The Sprout of Righteousness, The Sprout of Ritual Propriety, The Sprout of Wisdom

Question 46

What is the Sprout of Benevolence

Answer 46

Heart/Mind and Kindness