phil test study Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Question 1

Eidaimonia

Answer 1

happiness

Question 2

Arete

Answer 2

Virtue

Question 3

Techne

Answer 3

art;skill

Question 4

telos

Answer 4

end;goal

Question 5

Ethike

Answer 5

moral;virtue

Question 6

Pathe

Answer 6

passion

Question 7

Arche

Answer 7

principle;origen

Question 8

How to attain intellectual virtue

Answer 8

MIND need to be educated of it from another person

Question 9

how to attain moral virtue

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CHARACTER attained by practicing and making a habit of virtue; doing it over and over. For all virtue, it might involve doing an unpleasant activity for the greater good. accommodate all kinds of luck without complaining or pride, because all luck is only pain or pleasure.

Question 10

Justice is

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it is reciprocal-we get, we give. It is proportional-we get our due, we get what is due. Belief in a transcendent ground of justice is more likely to make for a just people than the opposite.

Question 11

Justice in religion

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giving God what God is due

Question 12

what is the ultimate aim in every action?

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Eudaimonia/happiness. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action as well as choice is held to aim at some good. Hence people have nobly declared that the good is that at which all things aim.

Question 13

Book IV is about

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intellectual virtues and their acquisition

Question 14

Our aims at vitrue

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are to hit the bullseye in the center of the circle, but sometimes we don’t know how to do that. We have to know what we want in order to make good choices that lead to what we want (happiness)

Question 15

Intellectual virtues:

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contemplative, intuition, wisdom, prudence

Question 16

contemplative virtue

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intellectual; grasps necessary eternal truths like math and logic

Question 17

prudence

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intellectual; also called phronesis; practical wisdom and it guides our choosing to the good, noble, and just.

Question 18

moral virtues

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enable us to do what is good, moral, and just

Question 19

FRIENDSHIPS

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UTILITY, PLEASURE, PERFECT FRIENDSHIP

Question 20

utility friendship

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built upon getting some benefit of advantage from that friendship. For example: nations allying against each other. Lasts until someone stops being useful. happens when your older because older want wealth, have more material needs because they are more limited, only friendship they’re cable of is utility or virtuous (if virtuous person) because they are not pleasurers or able to have as much pleasure as young people.

Question 21

pleasure friendship

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built upon delighting the passions. stops when someone stops being fun. happens with young people because they are better in body and more able to have pleasure

Question 22

PERFECT friendship

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built upon common virtue and ideals and embraces the 2 other friendships. happens rarely-bt equals.

Question 23

3 ways of life

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pleasure, political, contemplative

Question 24

happiness is

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living and acting well; noble pleasentry; divine and gained thru virtue

Question 25

2 parts of soul; 3 things in soul

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irrational and rational; emotions, capacities, characteristics