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PHILO1A - Lets Check 2.7,2.8

This document contains two activities that summarize key concepts from Aristotle's virtue ethics. Activity 2.7 lists 10 concepts discussed by Aristotle, including virtue, proper function, happiness, and the mean. Activity 2.8 contains 10 true/false questions testing understanding of Aristotle's view of virtue, character, happiness, and eudaimonia.

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PHILO1A - Lets Check 2.7,2.8

This document contains two activities that summarize key concepts from Aristotle's virtue ethics. Activity 2.7 lists 10 concepts discussed by Aristotle, including virtue, proper function, happiness, and the mean. Activity 2.8 contains 10 true/false questions testing understanding of Aristotle's view of virtue, character, happiness, and eudaimonia.

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PHILO1A / ASSIGNMENT

Let’s Check
Activity 2.7
1. Virtue ethics is moral theory that teaches moderation in everything we do.
2. Aristotle defines man as a rational capacity_.
3. According to Aristotle, every action and choice seem to aim at some _good_.
4. _Proper function_ is the ultimate purpose of human existence in the teaching of
Aristotle.
5. Nicomachean Ethics_ is a book credited to Aristotle dedicated to his teaching on
morality.
6. _Happiness_ is described by Aristotle as the highest good.
7. In Aristotelian teaching, happiness requires _virtue_.
8. In Aristotle’s teaching _Eudaimonia_ is the end which is ‘not’ used to attain another
end.
9. What sets human apart from all living things including brute animals is _mean_.
10. Deficiency and excesses are both classified by Aristotle as _vice_.

Let’s Check
Activity 2.8
1. __F__ Virtue is the same as happiness.
2. __T__ Virtue is a character.
3. __T__ Aristotle is a Medieval Philosopher.
4. __T__ Happiness requires virtue.
5. __T__ A happy person is a good person.
6. __T__ No bad person can be happy in Aristotle’s tenet.
7. __F__ ‘Eudaimonia’ is a Latin word for happiness.
8. __T__ Happiness is an activity of the soul.
9. __T__ A man’s feeling after winning P15 Million in a lottery is a good example of
happiness.
10. __F__ Aristotle was a teacher of Plato.

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