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MT Topic 3: The Good Life Flashcards

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

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Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

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fundamental basis of Aristotelian Ethics

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Nichomachean Ethics

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Who wrote Nichomachean Ethics?

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Aristotle

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How many books are in Nichomachean Ethics?

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10

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Who wrote Aristotelian Ethics

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Nichomachus

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

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Nichomachean Ethics

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useful in defining what is the good life

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Nichomachean Ethics

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everyone has a definition of what good is…

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Nichomachean Ethics

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What then is the ultimate good?

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  1. Pleasure
  2. Wealth
  3. Fame and Honor
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everyone aims to achieve that which is good

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Nichomachean Ethics

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all human activities aim at some good

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Nichomachean Ethics

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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

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Nichomachean Ethics 2:2

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good as a means to achieve something else

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Instrumental good

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

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Intrinsic good

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_______ is better than the instrumental good

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Ultimate good

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ultimate good

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happiness

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happiness is living well and doing well

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Nichomachean Ethics 1:4

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Greeks call happiness as

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Eudaimonia

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eu

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good

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daimon

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spirit

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means happiness and welfare; human flourishing and welfare

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Eudaimonia

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other translation for eudaimonia

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human flourishing or prosperity

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2 Hallmarks of Eudaimonia

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  1. Virtue
  2. Excellence
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transcends all aspects of life for it is about living well and doing well in whatever one does

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Eudaimonia

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illustrates a hierarchy of the functions and activities of the soul

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Aristotle’s notion of tripartite soul

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Aristotle’s Hierarchy of Souls

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  1. Vegetative (nutritive) Soul
  2. Sensitive Soul
  3. Rational Soul
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possessed by plants, allows only growth, assimilation of food, and reproduction

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Vegetative (nutritive) Soul

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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

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

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Rational Soul

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theoretical and practical

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Humans (Rational)

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locomotion and perception

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Animals (Sensitive)

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growth or nutrition and reproduction

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Plants (Nutritive)

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only _____ are capable of life guided by reason

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humans

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

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happiness

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defines a good life

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happiness

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life of virtue, a life of excellence

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Aristotle

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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

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excellence of any kind or moral virture

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Arete

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important in attaining a good life

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happiness

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

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Virtue

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excellence of character that empowers one to do and be good

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Virtue

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

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Virtue

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types of virtue

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  1. Intellectual
  2. Moral
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achieved through education, time and experience

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Intellectual Virtue

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kinds of Intellectual Virtue

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Wisdom
Understanding

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achieved through habitual practice

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Moral Virtue

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types of Moral Virtue

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Generosity
Temperance
Courage

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is like a skill that is learned through repeated practice

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Moral

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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

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a balance between two extremes is a requisite of ____

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virtue

47
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is ruined by any excess and deficiency in how one lives and acts

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virtue

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what is the good life?

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Sense of Eudaimonia

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

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Eudaimonia

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living a virtuous life

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Happiness

51
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support and enhance a good life for all citizens without compromising the earth’s ecosystem or the prospects of later organization

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technology

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allowed us to tamper time and space

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technology

52
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fiddle with out sexuality by injecting hormones

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technology

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