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Aristotle at his Finest
Mutant Turtle Types
Pursuit of Happiness
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Happiness, the Final Frontier
100
These people can live a pleasurable life.
What is those who do not directly pursue pleasure?
100
Mr. Lex, SJ devouring the chocolate cake in the Jesuit residence is an example of this character type.
What is incontinent?
100
This is the definition of a vice.
What is an exteme that leads one away from the Golden Mean?
100
This is the region in Greece where Aristotle was born.
What is Macedonia?
100
Happiness has both subjective and this elements.
What is objective?
200
These are three exceptions to the understanding of having a virtue attached to each vice.
What are murder, theft, and adultery?
200
These are the four major instincts of the human person.
What are fighting, fleeing, feeding, and reproduction?
200
This is the pursuit of pleasure according to Aristotle.
What is pursuing pleasure for itself instead of seeking virtue?
200
In this year Aristotle founded the Lyceum.
What is 335 BCE?
200
These people can never achieve happiness.
Who are the vicious?
300
This is how character and action is related.
What is actions help to define our character and character helps to define action?
300
Mr. Lex, SJ not devouring the chocolate cake is an example of this character type.
What is enduring?
300
True or false: Humans live their lives subjectively.
What is true?
300
This is the name of the place where Aristotle lived in 347 BCE.
What is Assos?
300
This famous leader was a pupil of Aristotle.
Who is Alexander the Great?
400
This is the character type who keeps his or her desires in check.
What is the continent/enduring?
400
These three things form habits which helps to form character.
What are experiences, actions, and practices?
400
True or false: the Golden Mean is relative to each person.
What is true?
400
This is another name for Aristotle's ethics.
What is "virtue ethics"?
400
This is an acorn's telos.
What is to become an oak tree?
500
These are three differences between Aristotle and Christianity.
What are: Aristotle's god is impersonal, Aristotle considers humility a vice and not a virtue, Aristotle does not consider the poor and the marginalized, and Aristotle advocates for the execution of the vicious and abortion/infanticide for population control?
500
These are the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their colors (from the cartoon series).
What are: Raphael (Red), Leonardo (Blue), Michelangelo (Orange), and Donatello (Purple)?
500
Yes or no: Does the vicious person struggle with his or her emotions?
What is no?
500
Name 5 subjects that were taught at the Lyceum other than: rhetoric, arts, and philosophy.
What are medicine, government, political history, political theory, history of philosophy, ethics, theology, psychology, metaphysics, logic, music, math, cosmology, biology, botany, astronomy, and physics?
500
This book and this chapter answered the question, "If I think I'm happy, I'm happy...aren't I?"
What is book X of the Nicomachean Ethics?