(M) Part III, L2: Virtue Ethics

Question 1

T or F. Plato believed that if one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good.

Answer 1

F (Socrates)

Question 2

T or F. According to Socrates, if one truly understands the meaning of courage, self-control, or justice, one will not act in a courageous, self-controlled and just manner.

Answer 2

F (will act)

Question 3

He maintains a virtue-based eudaemonistic
conception of ethics.

Answer 3

Plato

Question 4

What does eudaimonia mean?

Answer 4

Happiness and well-being

Question 4

In ethics and moral psychology, he developed the
view that the good life requires not just a certain
kind of knowledge

Answer 4

Plato

Question 5

T or F. Aquinas follows Socrates and Plato in taking the virtues to be central to a well-lived life.

Answer 5

F (Aristotle)

Question 6

T or F. Aristotle regards the ethical virtues as complex rational, emotional and social skills.

Answer 6

T

Question 7

T or F. Aristotle agrees with plato’s idea.

Answer 7

F

Question 8

He focuses on virtue, recommending the virtuous
way of life by its relation to happiness.

Answer 8

Aristotle

Question 9

He is an angelic doctor and prince of scholarstics

Answer 9

Thomas Aquinas

Question 10

T or F. Plato is an Italian philosopher and theologian in medieval time.

Answer 10

F (Aquinas)

Question 11

Who believes that all actions are directed towards
ends and that is happiness is the final end

Answer 11

Aquinas

Question 12

T or F. Aquinas states that true happiness is to be found only in the souls of the earth.

Answer 12

F (the blessed in heaven)

Question 13

His ethics heavily depend on Aristotle

Answer 13

Aquinas

Question 14

The rational plan of God by which all creation is
ordered

Answer 14

Eternal Law

Question 15

It is the rational pattern of the universe that exists into God’s mind that directs everything in the universe to its appointed end.

Answer 15

Eternal Law

Question 16

This law is accessible to human reason

Answer 16

natural law

Question 17

This relates to human conduct in which the ordinance of natural reason is for the common good

Answer 17

Natural law

Question 18

This refers to positive laws. It spells out what the natural laws prescribe as it gives precise and positive rules into the society such as civil and criminal laws formulated through practical reason and moral laws.

Answer 18

Human law

Question 19

The Law of revelation; Disclosed through the sacred text or Scriptures and the Church directed towards the man’s eternal end.

Answer 19

Divine law

Question 20

3 SETS OF INCLINATIONS of the Divine law

Answer 20

1. To survive
2. To reproduce and educate offspring
3. To know the truth about God and to live
   peacefully in society.

Question 21

Features of Human Actions according to Aquinas

Answer 21

Species, Accident, End

Question 22

The action referring to its kind or simply the object of the action known as the human deeds which are divided into 3 aspects which are good, neutral, bad.

Answer 22

species

Question 23

The action made referring to the circumstances “In ethically evaluating action, where action takes place is also considered as an act might be flawed through its circumstances. “

Answer 23

Accidents

Question 24

The intention of the action.

Answer 24

End

Question 25

T or F. “Happiness is equated with pleasure, material possessions, honor, or any sensual good, but consists in activities in accordance with virtue.”

Answer 25

F (not)

Question 26

Involve in consistent deliberate effort to do an act time and again and despite obstructions.

Answer 26

Acquired habits

Question 27

Independent of this process as they are directly instilled by God in our faculties.

Answer 27

INFUSED HABITS

Question 28

Two kinds of INFUSED HABITS

Answer 28

Moral and theological virtues

Question 28

Two kinds of INFUSED HABITS

Answer 28

Moral and theological virtues

Question 29

Who holds that the goodness or badness of an action lies in the interior act of will, the external bodily act, the very nature of the act o and its consequences?

Answer 29

Aquinas

Question 30

T or F. According to papi Aquinas what matters in morality is not what you do, but your intention in doing the act.

Answer 30

T

Question 31

T or F. Aquinas is more of a utilitarian than a deontologist or Kantian.

Answer 31

F (opposite)

Question 32

He is a virtue ethicist, like Aristotle

Answer 32

Aquinas

Question 33

T or F. Aquinas rejects the belief that there are no universally true general principles of morality.

Answer 33

T

Question 34

T or F. Aquinas is against some contemporary moral philosophies due to his notion of the Natural Law

Answer 34

T

Question 35

He believes that some basic principles about morality are knowable by all, which makes him against absolute skepticism about value.

Answer 35

Aquinas

Question 36

What ethics encourages us to do good, avoid evil, pursue knowledge, and live at peace with our neighbors.

Answer 36

Thomistic Ethics

Question 37

He promotes Aristotle's positive depictions of the world as rational, humane, and ordered

Answer 37

Thomistic Ethics

Question 38

a moral philosophy that teaches an action is right if it is an action that a virtuous person would perform

Answer 38

Virtue Ethics

Question 39

Someone who acts virtuously

Answer 39

Virtous person

Question 40

A moral characteristic that an individual needs to live well

Answer 40

Virtue

Question 41

puts emphasis on developing good habits of character and avoiding bad character traits or vices

Answer 41

Virtue Ethics

Question 42

Virtue ethics defines this as someone who develops the virtues and unfailingly displays them over some time.

Answer 42

Moral person

Question 43

Cardinal virtues of ancient Greeks

Answer 43

wisdom courage moderation justice

Question 44

What does Christian teaching recommends

Answer 44

faith hope charity love

Question 45

He indicates that pleasure and pain fail to provide an objective standard for determining moral from immoral

Answer 45

Socrates

Question 46

What is the central to Plato's philosophy?

Answer 46

theory of Forms

Question 47

the objectively existing immaterial entities that are the proper object of knowledge

Answer 47

theory of Forms

Question 48

For him, those who comprehend the Good will always do good actions. Bad actions are performed out of not knowing the Good

Answer 48

Plato

Question 49

What are the three general descriptions that are used to depict Aristotle's ethics?

Answer 49

self-realizationism eudaimonistic aretaic

Question 50

In Aristotle's philosophy, it is when someone acts in line with his nature or end (telos) and thus realizes his full potential

Answer 50

Self-realizationism

Question 51

In Aristotle's philosophy, it focuses on happiness or the good for man and how to obtain it

Answer 51

Eudamonistic

Question 52

In Aristotle's philosophy, it is the virtue-based defined as what should a person struggle to become

Answer 52

Aretaic

Question 53

Defined as the end or purpose

Answer 53

Aristotle's Telos

Question 54

He believes that the essence of humans lay not at their cause (or beginning) but at their end

Answer 54

Aristotle

Question 55

Aristotle means those which the person with wisdom would choose because what is good is obvious to such a person

Answer 55

Virtuous actions

Question 56

Aristotle believes that this is the ultimate human goal

Answer 56

Self-realization

Question 57

What are the three natures of man according to Aristotle?

Answer 57

Vegetable (physical), animal (emotional), and rational (mental)

Question 58

According to him, the purpose of studying ethics is to make ourselves good

Answer 58

Aristotle

Question 59

According to Aristotle. human good is?

Answer 59

Eudaimonia

Question 60

This refers to the greatest good of all time which is happiness

Answer 60

Summum bonum

Question 61

According to Aristotle, happiness should also be understood in the sense of ______

Answer 61

Human flourishing

Question 62

This word is usd to refer to moral virtue; an active state, a condition in which something must actively hold itself

Answer 62

Hexis

Question 63

What are the two kinds of virtue according to Aristotle?

Answer 63

Virtues of intellect Moral virtues

Question 64

Refers to the fully rational part of the soul, the intellect

Answer 64

Virtues of intellect

Question 65

Part of the rational soul which can obey reason; an expression of character formed by habits, reflecting repeated choices

Answer 65

Moral virtues

Question 66

Moral virtues is also called?

Answer 66

Virtue of character

Question 67

Excess and defect nornamlly indicate a ?

Answer 67

Vice

Question 68

Moral virtue is the ______ between the two less desirable extremes

Answer 68

Golden mean

Question 69

What are the four basic moral virtues according to Aristotle?

Answer 69

courage temperance justice prudence

Question 70

the golden mean between cowardice and tactless rashness

Answer 70

Courage

Question 71

the mean between gluttony and extreme frugality

Answer 71

temperance

Question 72

the virtue of giving others right what they deserve, neither more or less

Answer 72

Justice

Question 73

this enables us to keep away from excess and defect

Answer 73

prudence or wisdom

Question 74

the intellectual virtue of practical wisdom, the kind of moral knowledge which guides us to what is appropriate in conjunction with moral virtue

Answer 74

phronesis

Question 75

a grasp of the appropriate way to respond -- to feel and act -- in a particular situation

Answer 75

phronesis or practical wisdom

Question 76

T or F; to be virtuous is to act in accordance with the right prescription

Answer 76

True