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Vocabulary Flashcards

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Arete

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The excellence of character/highest good

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Virtue

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State of character concerned with choice

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What are passions?

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Feelings associated with pleasure/pain

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What are faculties?

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Sense of perception/more feelings

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What are states of character?

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How we react/regulate our emotions

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How does Aristotle define defect?

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The lower ends on the extreme scale; one who does not do enough

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How does Aristotle define excess?

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The higher end on the extreme scale; when one does too much

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What are the 3 components of virtue?

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The mean, the idea that virtue is concerned with choice and states of character

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9
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Achieving the mean achieves _________?

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Virtue

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10
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The state aims for what?

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“The highest good”

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11
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What are the 2 virtue types?

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  1. Intellectual - requires experience and time
  2. Moral - results of habit
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12
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Good legislature makes citizens good by instilling ______ into them?

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Habits

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What is the fundamental principle when it comes to achieving the mean?

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Choice

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What are some examples of choice that citizens can perform according to Aristotle?

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Being noble, advantageous and pleasant (healthy)

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RR: Who are the consuls?

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An elected Roman magistrate that had regal power

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RR: Who were the tribunes?

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Military and civil officials as well as people who worked within the judicial system?

17
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Veto means…

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“I forbid it”

18
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How many consuls did the Roman republic have?

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They had 2; each of them had even numbers of people because they hated the idea of one person ruling

19
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Imperator means…

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Emperor

20
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What is the separation of powers?

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The one part of the government that allows the voices of the citizens to be made but doesn’t allow them to rule

21
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Mercenaries

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Landless Roman citizens

22
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What is triumph?

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When military citizens won against a foreigner and came back and showed off to everyone else what you had won

23
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The afterlife was considered (good/bad) by the Romans?

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Bad

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