Philosophers & Thinkers
Aristotle’s teacher
Who is Plato?
The integration of sexuality within the person.
What is Chastity?
The principles that guide how we act in society
What are ethics?
This philosopher explained that true friendship is more simple that companionship or helpfulness.
Who is Richard G. Cote?
What is happy?
This philosopher believed that morality is based on duty rather than seeking happiness
Who is Immanuel Kant?
The restraint of passions and appetites according to reason
What is Temperance?
"Happiness involves living a _______ life."
What is virtuous?
Two qualities that are necessary for true friendship according to Richard. G Cote
What are mutual trust and self-giving love?
Your friend keeps stealing your food without your permission. You eventually reach your breaking point and think about yelling at them, as well as contemplating not saying anything at all. You end up deciding to have a calm conversation with them instead of either yelling or staying silent.
Which teaching did you apply to make this choice?
What is the Golden Mean.
This philosopher believed true goodness begins with God’s call through the “face of the other”
Who is Emmanuel Levinas?
Anxious concern for another.
What is Solicitude?
The five philosophers that teach about the good and how to achieve it
Who are Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, and Levinas?
The virtue that helps us practice concern for others in relationships
What is Solicitude?
You’re rushing to an exam when you see a stranger fall on the sidewalk. Levinas would argue that true morality means stopping to help them, because their suffering calls you to this kind of ethical responsibility.
What is responsibility to The Other.
This philosopher combined Aristotle’s philosophy with Christian faith
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
Social constructs that give structure and form to a community’s set or systems of meanings, beliefs and values.
What are Institutions?
This describes a life of flourishing, a life in which a person is constantly striving for self-improvement, ot be more virtuous, more wise, more thoughtful and self aware. Better.
What is Eudaimonia?
Richard G. Cote describes this as the bond formed in true friendship
What is union?
You are running late to school and risk suspension if you're late again. You see a classmate while walking and ask for a ride so that you avoid supension. Kant's ethics deem this as immoral because it violates this law.
What is the formula of humanity/treating others as means to an end.
According to Aristotle, happiness comes from living a life that is both rational and ___
What is virtuous?
The four Cardinal Virtues according to St. Thomas Aquinas.
What are Prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice?
Aristotle believed that this thing was the proper way to being a human, and that we'll only flourish by finding that path.
What is Human Essence?
In true friendship, what are friends willing to sacrifice for one another that encompases the idea of self-giving love
What is time, energy, and even life?
If one's life should be put onto the forefront of another's life with the acknowledgement of death ahead of them. Would it remain moral for one to die toward another under Kantian Ethics? (Moral or not moral) Explain along with your answer.
What is not moral?