Happiness & Contemplation
Aristotle’s one-word answer to what every human being is ultimately after.
What is happiness?
The two types of freedom we discussed were
What are freedom of indifference and freedom for excellence?
What are the three sources of morality?
What are intention, object, and circumstances?
A tree is known by these
What are fruits?
The Greek word for “end” or “purpose”
What is telos?
What you’re doing when you do something purely for its own sake
What is contemplation?
The definition of freedom of excellence is?
What is the ability to do what is good, or what you should?
Effects an action has on the world, as opposed to on you.
What are transitive effects?
This Italian saint snuck out at night to serve Turin’s poor; thousands of them came to his funeral.
Who is Pier Giorgio Frassati?
The example we talked about to illustrate that habits transfer said that “All interviews should be held where”
What is a basketball court?
This principle of Thomas Aquinas is the answer to why we study theology
What is “You cannot love what you do not know”?
The more we grow in this, the less free we are to do the good.
What is vice?
Utilitarianism’s claim that these can justify intrinsically evil acts.
What are circumstances?
Habit is the in-between layer connecting these two things.
What are the person and his actions?
This ethical system said morality is simply just what our emotions approve or disapprove of
What is emotivism?
After a mystical experience near the end of his life, this saint called everything he had written “straw.”
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
Under freedom for excellence, a law is not an obstacle but this.
What is a teacher?
The effects that an action has on who you become, as opposed to the world around you
What are intransitive effects?
Aristotle’s two-word name for a habit.
What is second nature?
This ethical system says we should never ever consult our emotions, and the desire for happiness ruins moral action
What is deontology?
Aristotle’s definition of happiness:
What is rational activity in accord with excellence?
Far from restraining you, this is actually the road to freedom, even if it means you’ll never play in the NBA.
What is nature?
TRUE OR FALSE: The “object of the act” is simply the physical description of the act being done
What is FALSE?
Virtue grows by adding this, not just more repetitions.
What is intention/intensity?
Hume, Kant, and the utilitarians all cut morality off from this, which is why they go wrong on the emotions.
What is human nature (a purpose or end)?