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Ultimate Good Topic Flashcards

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transitory

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Pleasure

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doesn’t cover all aspects

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Pleasure

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based on subjective views of others

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Fame & Honor

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living well and doing well

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Happiness

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Happiness or welfare, human flourishing or prosperity

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Eudaimonia

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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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Happiness is unique to humans for it is a uniquely human function

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Eudaimonia

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  • excellence of any kind
  • moral virtue
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Arete

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Two types of Virtue

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1) Intellectual Virtue
2) Moral Virtue

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virtue of thought

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Intellectual Virtue

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achieved through education, time, and experience

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Intellectual Virtue

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achieved through education, time, and experience

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Intellectual Virtue

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acquired through self-taught knowledge and skills

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Intellectual Virtue

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acquired through self-taught knowledge and skills

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Intellectual Virtue

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virtue of character

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Moral Virtue

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achieved through habitual practice

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Moral Virtue

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Key Moral Virtues:

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• Generosity
• Temperance
• Courage

18
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developed by repeatedly being unselfish

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Generosity

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developed by repeatedly resisting and foregoing every inviting opportunity

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Temperance

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developed by repeatedly exhibiting the proper action and emotional response in the face of danger

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Courage

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Aristotle’s Tripartite Soul

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• Rational
• Sensitive
• Nutritive

22
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Based on Aristotle Tripartite Soul Humans are:

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• rational
• theoretical
• practical

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Based on Aristotle’s Tripartite Soul Animals are:

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• partly rational
• locomotion
• perception

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Based on Aristotle’s Tripartite Soul Plants are:

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• non-rational
• growth, nutrition
• reproduction

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school of thought led by Democritus and Leucippus (around 430 - 670 BC)

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Materialism

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There is no need to posit immaterial entities as sources of purpose.

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Materialism

27
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Only material entities matter.

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Materialism

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Matter is what makes us attain happiness.

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Materialism

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This belief aims that comfort, pleasure, and wealth, are the only highest goals.

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Materialism

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• school of thought led by Epicurus
• Hedonists see the end goal of life in acquiring pleasure.

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Hedonism

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Life is about obtaining and indulging in pleasure because life is limited.

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Hedonism

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“Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.”

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Hedonism

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Hedonists strive to maximize their total pleasure, and if the pleasure was finally gained, happiness remains fixed.

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Hedonism

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Originally Apatheism

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Stoicism

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• school of thought also led by Epicurus
• espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic

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Stoicism

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Happiness can only be attained by a careful practice of apathy.

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Stoicism

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Finding the meaning of life using God as a fulcrum of their existence.

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Theism

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The ultimate basis of happiness for theists is the communion with God.

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Theism

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affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape their own lives

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Humanism

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espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own laws, free from the shackles of a God that monitors and controls

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Humanism

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