Aristotle’s Good Life
Pop Culture
Mino-Bimaadiziwin (The Good Life – Anishinaabe Perspective)
Sitcoms
Plato’s Good Life
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According to Aristotle, this is the ultimate goal of human life and means “flourishing” or “living well.”

What is eudaimonia?

100

What does GRWM mean?

What is Get Ready With Me?

100

In Anishinaabe teachings, Mino-Bimaadiziwin translates roughly to this in English.

What is the Good Life?

100

This show features the catchphrase “How you doin’?” and a coffee shop called Central Perk.

What is Friends?

100

According to Plato, the good life is achieved by aligning the soul with this.

What is the Form of the Good?

200

Aristotle believed that achieving the good life requires practicing this habit of choosing the mean between extremes.

What is virtue (or arete)?

200

This TikTok sound features a kid passionately describing a vegetable:

What is Corn?

200

Living Mino-Bimaadiziwin involves maintaining respectful relationships with these.

What are all living beings (or all of Creation)?

200

This show centers around Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer and is famously “about nothing.”

What is Seinfeld?

200

Plato believed the soul had three parts: reason, spirit, and this.

What is appetite (or desire)?

300

This part of the soul, which includes reasoning, must be cultivated to live the good life.

What is the rational soul?

300

This slang term means you're being completely honest or telling the truth.

What is "No Cap"?

300

This concept emphasizes mutual care and going easy on one another, and is central to living a good life in community.

What is manaaji’idiwin (respect)?

300

Will Smith stars in this sitcom about moving in with his rich relatives.

What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

300

Plato argued that this class of people in the ideal state are best suited to rule because of their wisdom.

Who are the philosopher-kings?

400

Aristotle argued that this type of friendship, based on mutual virtue, is the highest form.

What is a virtuous friendship?

400

his planet is the hottest in our solar system.

What is Venus?

400

Mino-Bimaadiziwin requires balance in these three areas of life.

What are mind, body, and spirit?

400

This Netflix show about a Chicago chef became a surprise hit in 2023 but isn’t technically a sitcom—name it anyway.

What is the Bear?

400

This famous allegory by Plato illustrates how people must seek truth and enlightenment beyond illusion.

What is the Allegory of the Cave?

500

Aristotle said this kind of life, focused on thought and contemplation, was the highest form of the good life.

What is the philosophical life (or contemplative life)?

500

This superhero uses a hammer named Mjölnir.

Who is Thor?

500

This teaching refers to seeing all our relatives, including animals, plants, and the land itself.

What is Indinawemaaganidog (all my relations)?

500

This sitcom takes place in Pawnee, Indiana.

What is Parks and Recreation?

500

For Plato, justice in the individual is achieved when each part of the soul does this.

What is performs its proper role (or functions harmoniously)?