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Aristotle lived from the year __ to __ ?

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384 - 322 BC

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Aristotle was a student of a Famous Philosopher, who is he?

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Plato

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Where does Aristotle study when he was a student of Plato?

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Academia in Athens

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True or False:
Most of the time Aristotle was in an intellectual dispute with Plato.

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True

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Due to the disputes that Aristotle have with Plato, he founded his own school. What is the name of the school?

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Lyceum

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What are the different works in different fields that Aristotle is able to create?

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  1. Metaphysics
  2. De Generatione et Corruptione (Biology)
  3. De Anima (Psychology)
  4. Nichomachean Ethics
  5. Organon (Logic)
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True or False:
Some Historians claimed that Aristotle was greatly influenced by his father who was a Writer.

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False (His Father was a Physician)

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True or False:
Aristotle was very observant of the surrounding like a physician who tries to observe his patients.

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True

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What is the name of the Son of Aristotle

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Nichomachus

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The book of Aristotle when it comes to Ethics was named after his son. What is it called?

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Nichomachean Ethics

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True or False:
Aristotle establishes his ideas in Ethics using the Platonic understanding of reality and its concept of good as his springboard.

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True

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True or False:
Plato divided the world into two realms

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True

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What are the two realms that Plato divided?

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Realm of Forms/Eidos
Realm of Matter

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This realm is considered that everything in the realm is the truth/real/perfect.

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Realm of Forms/Eidos

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This realm is considered that everything in the realm that you sense is just a copy of what are in the realm of forms.

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Realm of Matter

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True or False:
Aristotle abandons the idea of Plato about reality and good.

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True

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True or False:
Aristotle did not contests the separation of matter and form.

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False

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True or False:
According to Aristotle, everything in the world outside the world of forms or ideas are not true.

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False (This is from Plato’s Perspective)

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True or False:
Everything in the world of matter is not true, because they are subject to change.

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True

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True or False:
According to Aristotle, we will not be able to understand a thing without having matter and form.

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True

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What is the Greek word that means “Purpose”

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Telos

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where does Aristotle’s Ethical Framework starts from?

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Observing what is there in nature

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True or False:
When a person performs actions, it is always directed towards something.

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True

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True or False:
A person can perform actions without a purpose.

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False

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True or False: Everything in this world including a person has "telos"
True
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What is the meaning of Telos
End, Goal, or Purpose
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True or False: A person acts towards a goals or purpose
True
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True or False: A person will perform an act when she sees the purpose as good, but a person will still do something if she sees the purpose as bad
False (No person will do something if she sees the purpose is bad)
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This is used to attain a higher goal or purpose.
Purpose
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What is the Greek word that means Happiness
Eudaimonia
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What is the meaning of Eudaimonia?
Happiness
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True of False: In the hierarchy of telos, goal, or purpose there must be the highest purpose, this must be ultimate.
True
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This means that it is the last and final.
Ultimate
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True or False According to Aristotle, to consider the telos to be ultimate it must fit the Criteria.
True.
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What is the First Criteria to achieve Eudaimonia?
It must be Final.
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What is the Second Criteria to achieve Eudaimonia?
It must be self-sufficient.
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What is the Third Criteria to achieve Eudaimonia?
It must be Attainable.
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What is the Three Criteria to achieve Eudaimonia?
1. It must be Final 2. It must be self-sufficient 3. It must be Attainable.
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Yes or No: Since Eudaimonia means Happiness, is it the same as the emotion?
No
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True or False: Eudaimonia being the ultimate telos makes every person desires it.
True
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What is the Greek word for Proper Function?
Ergon
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What is the meaning of Ergon?
Proper Function
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True or False: We can attain the ultimate telos by fulfilling our function.
True
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This is what distinguishes or characterizes the thing from other beings.
Function
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What is the function of a person?
Ability to Reason
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This ability distinguishes a person from other beings.
Ability to Reason
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True or False: There is no other being that can reason.
True
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True or False: To be a person is to not act in accordance with reason.
False
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True or False: According to Plato, he argues that we can attain Eudaimonia by performing our ergon which is the ability to reason.
False (It is Aristotle who argues about attaining Eudaimonia)
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True or False: We should perform our function well. We must perform it in a good or excellent way.
True
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What is the Greek word that means performing in a good way or excellent way?
Arete
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The Word Arete is equated to what word?
Virtue
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What word is associated with the words good, excellent and noble.
Virtue
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True or False: Virtue cannot be accomplished in a single act.
True
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True or False: Virtue is accomplished through repetitive actions.
True
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Virtue is acquired through what?
Habits
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True or False: Habits is always good?
False (There are Bad Habits)
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This is essential to the formation of one's character
Habits
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True or False: According to Aristotle, Virtue is the excellent management of one's feelings and passions.
True
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True or False: To become a virtuous person, we need to find the mesotes.
True
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Aristotle believe that when a person is already habituated on finding the mesotes she will be called what?
Phronimos
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This is a virtuous person who does not have to control oneself because one's resolution has been habituated to always to the right act, self-possessed.
Phronimos
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This is a state of character concerned with a choice
Virtue
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Virtue is the mean between two vices, what are the these two vices?
Excess and Deficiency
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What is the Greek word that means Mean or middle
Mesotes
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True or False: Many actions do not have mesotes and they are considered as wrong actions
True
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This is always exact or as the maximum act
The Mean (Mesotes)

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