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Human Nature
Virtues
The soul
Friendship and Politics
Pot Pourri
100

THIS is defined as "Activity of the soul in accord with reason or requiring reason"

Human Function
100
Vulgar buffoonery is the excess related to the virtue of ___________.

Wit

100

Pusillanimity is the deficiency related to the virtue of  _______________________. 

Magnanimity.

100

___________ is complete virtue in relation to another

Justice

100

What does the virtuous person seek to grab more of for himself?

The fine

200

For Aristotle, everything we do tends to seek some ___________, and the ___________ is what everyone seeks

Good

200
  • “Virtue, then, is a ________ that decides, consisting in a mean, the mean relative to us, which is defined by reference to reason, that is to say, to the reason by reference to which the prudent person would define it.”

State

200

True or false - there are two parts of the rational part of the soul.

True

200

The three types of friendship from Best to Worst are...

Complete, Pleasure, Utility

200

When I weigh different options and reason through which will help achieve my goal, this process Aristotle calls _______________.

Deliberation

300

What is the "most divine element in us" according to Aristotle? 

Understanding

300

For Aristotle, virtue of character is acquired by:

Habituation

300

What kind of person would know it is not good to eat a whole box of donuts but would do so anyway?

Incontinent person

300

Special justice has two species: _____________ and rectification in transactions.

Distribution

300

"________________, then, is apparently something complete and self-sufficient, since it is the end of the things achievable in action" (NE, 1097 B21).

Happiness

400

_____________ can be defined as an unimpeded activity of the natural state

Pleasure

400

Virtue is a state lying in a mean - the mean relative to __________. 

Us

400

Which part of the rational soul is prudence a virtue of?

The rationally calculating part.

400

___________ is the least bad of the deviations.

Democracy

400

“________________ must be a state grasping the truth, involving reason, and concerned with action about human goods.” (NE, 1140b 22)

Prudence

500

________________ is activity of the soul in accord with virtue over a complete life.

Happiness

500

Because the person with this virtue must already be worthy of great things, Aristotle describes this virtue as the “adornment of virtue.”

Magnanimity

500

Which part of the rational soul is wisdom a virtue of?

The scientific part.

500

_____________ is the regime that most easily slides into Tyranny.

Kingship

500

What is the object of the activity that Aristotle calls “study”?  

The "Fine and divine"