Happiness
A fuller description of happiness than just feeling pleasure/happy for a moment.
What is human flourishing?
The Aristotelian character type that consistently does the good but struggles and resents it sometimes?
What is continent?
A virtue is a habit of the ____
What is mind?
The Greek word for the end or purpose of a thing.
What is a telos?
The powers that humans share with animals (two powers)
What are sense perception and self-motion?
Being insofar as it's desirable.
What is goodness?
The opposite of a virtue.
What is a vice?
Habits are hard to ______ and ____ ____ __.
What are obtain and get rid of?
Humans all have the same end because they share this.
What is a nature?
A power of the soul which humans share with both plants and animals.
What is growth/nutrition/reproduction?
Four false ideas of happiness, according to Aristotle/St. Thomas.
What are wealth, power, pleasure, and honor?
The virtue which perfects the will, governing our actions regarding others.
What is justice?
How you build habits.
What is repeated action?
The telos of virtue.
What is happiness?
The part of the human mind that understands.
What is the intellect?
The activity that is final happiness according to Aristotle.
What is contemplation of the highest good?
How moral virtues increase/build.
What is repetition?
A habit is a ________ for some ________.
What are capacity and activity?
What humans are seeking when they sin.
What is happiness/lower goods?
The power by which humans desire, choose, and love.
What is the will?
The activity that is final happiness according to Christians.
What is contemplating God/all things in light of God/heaven?
A stable disposition of the mind which makes the actor and his actions good, which cannot be used for ill.
What is a virtue?
What is vicious?
The purpose of human life, and the end we all seek in every action.
What is happiness/eudaemonia?
The term for emotions dealing with difficult goods.
What are the irascible passions?