e&vII quiz partial 1

Question 0

Socrates

Answer 0

Socrates the ultimate end of man is to achieve happiness and that they achieve it through virtues(wisdom). But the ultimate ends, as if he sees that happiness is a big independent thing, it’s more about this argument of truth and intellectual thinks.

Question 1

Epicurus

Answer 1

Ataraxia( peace and freedom for fear)
Aponia( absence of pain)
Achieving happiness is the only goal. You can only reach it when you are free from any social ties, mental anxiety and physical pain. Following the law and religion are obstacles for happiness.

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

Happiness is the main purpose of life and it depends on ourselves only, and we can only get it through virtues(moral and intellectual, which are acquired by practice). “Happiness is the activity of the soul according to the virtue”. It’s like a moral state of the end state/stage of my whole life.

Question 3

Thomas de Aquino

Answer 3

There’s different ways of happiness, but the main one is to believe in god (which is the purpose of life) and doing good things (individual will) was another way of being happy.

Question 4

Immanuel

Kant

Answer 4

He was an Idealist that thinks that happiness is found by our own agency, by doing good even when no one watches or tells you to. We should not behave well because of the law but for the sake of it.

Question 5

Jeremy Bentham

Answer 5

He thinks that happiness to society is a big thing and he thinks that everyone’s happiness is worth the same. He said that all man seek to maximize their own happiness because they all search for pleasure over pain and happiness is considered a pleasure. He said the more you had the less happiness you would get from extra things, he too said that wealth had to do with happiness and all of this he tried to take it to a social level. Also he had a mathematical approach on happiness.

Question 6

Soren Kierkegaard

Answer 6

Process to get to happiness

1. Aesteethic stage(material)
2. Ethical stage
3. Religious stage (forgiveness of god) and only in this one we can only truly be happy and authentic

Question 7

Value

Answer 7

A value will be a concept or a standard that you will decide, you can see then when you’re going to take a decision,

Question 8

Ethics and morals relation

Answer 8

Ethics are a reflection which relates to values which both are concepts that are ideas.
Then comes moral which is an action which is a virtue which both are an activity or a practice of discipline

Question 9

Aristotle’s vision of virtue (definition)

Answer 9

It is something that is only learned though practicing it and knowing that you are practicing it and doing it because you want to.
If you learn to control yourself and be good you’ll be happy.

Question 10

Moral virtues

Answer 10

The mean between two things, result of the habit or the perfection of the will.
Controlling character and temper and character and choosing and acting well.
Temperance(physical)
Justice(giving everyone what they deserve trying to give the same to everyone)
Fortress(emotions)

Question 11

Intellectual virtues

Answer 11

It’s about thinking and you can only acquire them through teaching. To know what’s just and admirable

1. Prudence(being able to be a beautiful person in the inside, showing what you want to be)
2. Artistic/technical knowledge on the outside
3. Nous (curiosity,push to know,have to)
4. Philosophical(Sophia) wisdom, seeing the world under the scope of totality, learning through discovery/ the perfection of the reason, the world through a philosophical view
5. Logos(science€ the practical of life.

Question 12

Scheler’s vision of values

Answer 12

Pragmatic values, values of life, mental values and values of the holy.
For scheler, values are qualities, stated by human, born knowledge of good and bad and the reason applied to it that can be (hierarquised) and that are totally independent from any depositary. Values are consequences of diverse historical condition and social norms .
Good and bad are individual things but come together to see pleasure, good is static.
It’s a social intellectual perception in the way we behave with things, we use standards to judge. It’s in the perception… About how you feel.

Question 13

Nietzsche

Answer 13

He says that we will always suffer, but even through we suffer we will still try to be happy. In other words you have to be or try to be happy even though you are suffering

Question 14

Happiness for our society

Answer 14

Security, love, material stuff, following, money, friends, believe, stereotypes, being normal

Question 15

What moral conforms to you?

Answer 15

Family, values, religion,faith, politeness, culture, friends, happiness, roots, the way you were raised. The only thing e don’t question they are the answers to some of our questions

Question 16

Eraclitus

Answer 16

For you to be the same one you cannot be the same

Question 17

Maslow’s pyramid of needs

Answer 17

Some sort of stairs to get to happiness, find success and you can’t skip them.
Bottom to top
1. Physiological: things you need in order to survive to be alive(homeostasis) more about biological.
2. Safety: For living but from other people, material things to be alive, knowing you have a job, resources, family, health , property etc.
3. Love belonging: “cheesy” social (family to take care of the baby) , love sexual intimacy.
4. Esteem: evaluation, final judgement that you say about you, overall how I feel good or bad, respect of others and respected by others ( confidence,
achievement)
5. Self actualization: (autonomy) able to create your morality, improvise life, can solve problems, acceptance of facts… Creativity.

Question 18

Purpose of

Life

Answer 18

It’s the ultimate reason you have to keep being alive

Question 19

Emotions and feeling relation

Answer 19

Emotions come from feelings. Society can tell is when to get angry, scared, but not how. We control reactions but not processes, society teaches us to overreact or suppress or feeling but no to control them(Aristotle)

Question 20

Feelings

Answer 20

Are related to chemical processes and they are my own, I cannot know someone else’s feeling but only my own, I can only suspect. They tech us WHEN to feel

Question 21

Emotions

Answer 21

They are social tags implied by culture and society to call a particular feeling in a particular context or circumstance

Question 22

Definition of ethics

Answer 22

A branch of philosophy that studies morals, culture and decision making processes since we don’t have instincts to tell us what to do thought the argumentative method and it’s a discipline.