BOOK I
What is the science that studies the good?
Political Science
What are the two kinds of virtue?
virtues of thought & virtues of character
_________ is voluntary.
Decision
________ is the mean between ungenerosity (deficiency) and wastefulness (excess).
Generosity
What are the 3 types of justice?
Justice in distribution, justice in rectification, justice in exchange.
Happiness is _______ and self-sufficient.
Complete
Virtues of thought result from/grow from ________.
learning
"_________ action is either forced or caused by ignorance..." (p.38)
Involuntary
"_________ is the mean about anger." (p.71)
Calmness
Justice is ________ among virtues.
supreme
What is the highest/greatest good?
Happiness
"Virtue is a state that decides, consisting in a _____ relative to us that is determined by reference to reason." (p.29)
mean
"____________ is about things that happen usually, where the outcome is unclear and where it is indeterminate. And we enlist partners in ___________ on large issues when we distrust our own ability to discern." (p.41) [same word]
Deliberation
"It is not appropriate to treat ______ as a virtue." (p.78)
shame
_________ is the intermediate of exchange.
Currency
What do we refer to as the city?
Polis
___________ is the mean between boastfulness (excess) and self-deprecation (deficiency).
Truthfulness
__________ is concerned with pleasures.
Temperance
The excess of magnanimity (a virtue of character) is ______, an excess of pride or admiration in oneself.
vanity
Justice in rectification has transactions that are _________ (selling, buying, lending...) & __________ (theft, adultery, false witness...).
voluntary & involuntary
The function of humans is...
a life of action in accord with reason/virtue.
What are the 3 criteria/conditions for a virtuous action?
1.) Agent has to know they are doing a virtuous action.
2.) Agent has to decide to do it and to do it for itself/not for other reasons.
3.) Agent has to act from a firm and unchanging state (has to be part of their character/habit).
__________ helps us distinguish character better than actions do.
Decision
_________ is the mean between ostentation/vulgarity (excess) and stinginess (deficiency). It is seen as a large-scale version of generosity.
Magnificence
"...for a city is maintained by proportionate reciprocity. For people seek to return either evil for evil...or good for good, since otherwise there is no ________; and they are maintained by _________." (p.88) [same word]
exchange