MT Topic 3: The Good Life

Question 1

“science must be guided by some ethical basis that is not dictated by science itself.”

Answer 1

Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

Question 2

fundamental basis of Aristotelian Ethics

Answer 2

Nichomachean Ethics

Question 3

Who wrote Nichomachean Ethics?

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 3

How many books are in Nichomachean Ethics?

Answer 3

10

Question 4

Who wrote Aristotelian Ethics

Answer 4

Nichomachus

Question 5

A treatise on nature of moral life and human happiness based on the unique essence of human nature

Answer 5

Nichomachean Ethics

Question 6

useful in defining what is the good life

Answer 6

Nichomachean Ethics

Question 7

everyone has a definition of what good is…

Answer 7

Nichomachean Ethics

Question 8

What then is the ultimate good?

Answer 8

1. Pleasure
2. Wealth
3. Fame and Honor

Question 8

everyone aims to achieve that which is good

Answer 8

Nichomachean Ethics

Question 8

all human activities aim at some good

Answer 8

Nichomachean Ethics

Question 8

Every art and human inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reasom, the good has been rightly declared as that at which all things aim

Answer 8

Nichomachean Ethics 2:2

Question 9

good as a means to achieve something else

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Instrumental good

Question 10

good in itself, something worthwhile not because it leads to something else

Answer 10

Intrinsic good

Question 11

_______ is better than the instrumental good

Answer 11

Ultimate good

Question 12

ultimate good

Answer 12

happiness

Question 13

happiness is living well and doing well

Answer 13

Nichomachean Ethics 1:4

Question 14

Greeks call happiness as

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Eudaimonia

Question 15

eu

Answer 15

good

Question 16

daimon

Answer 16

spirit

Question 17

means happiness and welfare; human flourishing and welfare

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Eudaimonia

Question 18

other translation for eudaimonia

Answer 18

human flourishing or prosperity

Question 19

2 Hallmarks of Eudaimonia

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1. Virtue
2. Excellence

Question 20

transcends all aspects of life for it is about living well and doing well in whatever one does

Answer 20

Eudaimonia

Question 21

illustrates a hierarchy of the functions and activities of the soul

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Aristotle's notion of tripartite soul

Question 22

Aristotle's Hierarchy of Souls

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1. Vegetative (nutritive) Soul 2. Sensitive Soul 3. Rational Soul

Question 23

possessed by plants, allows only growth, assimilation of food, and reproduction

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Vegetative (nutritive) Soul

Question 24

possessed by animals but not plants; organisms with a sensitive soul sense and respond to the environment, experience pleasure and pain, and have a memory

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Sensitive Soul

Question 25

possessed only by humans; adds thinking and rational thought to the functions of the other two souls

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Rational Soul

Question 26

theoretical and practical

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Humans (Rational)

Question 27

locomotion and perception

Answer 27

Animals (Sensitive)

Question 28

growth or nutrition and reproduction

Answer 28

Plants (Nutritive)

Question 29

only _____ are capable of life guided by reason

Answer 29

humans

Question 30

is a uniquely human function for it can only be achieved through rationally directed life

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happiness

Question 31

defines a good life

Answer 31

happiness

Question 32

life of virtue, a life of excellence

Answer 32

Aristotle

Question 33

It is the activities that express virture that control happiness, and the contrary activities that control its contrary.

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Nichomachean Ethics 1:10

Question 34

excellence of any kind or moral virture

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Arete

Question 35

important in attaining a good life

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happiness

Question 36

it is the constant practice of the good no matter how difficult

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Virtue

Question 37

excellence of character that empowers one to do and be good

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Virtue

Question 38

cultivated with habit and discipline as it is not a one time deed

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Virtue

Question 39

types of virtue

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1. Intellectual 2. Moral

Question 40

achieved through education, time and experience

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Intellectual Virtue

Question 41

kinds of Intellectual Virtue

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Wisdom Understanding

Question 42

achieved through habitual practice

Answer 42

Moral Virtue

Question 43

types of Moral Virtue

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Generosity Temperance Courage

Question 44

is like a skill that is learned through repeated practice

Answer 44

Moral

Question 45

good relationship dynamics and a healthy environment contribute to one's wellness, in how he or she lives and does

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Virtue

Question 46

a balance between two extremes is a requisite of ____

Answer 46

virtue

Question 47

is ruined by any excess and deficiency in how one lives and acts

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virtue

Question 48

what is the good life?

Answer 48

Sense of Eudaimonia

Question 49

state of being happy, healthy, and prosperous in thinking, living and acting

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Eudaimonia

Question 50

living a virtuous life

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Happiness

Question 51

support and enhance a good life for all citizens without compromising the earth's ecosystem or the prospects of later organization

Answer 51

technology

Question 51

allowed us to tamper time and space

Answer 51

technology

Question 52

fiddle with out sexuality by injecting hormones

Answer 52

technology