Great Books I Study Questions for Assignment 29
Study Questions for Assignment 29 -- Aristotle's Ethics, I-II
  1. What is an "end"? (I.1) (1094a, 1097a)
  2. How does Aristotle argue that there must be a "chief good"? (I.2) (1094a)
  3. Why is Aristotle's inquiry into the nature of happiness fundamentally a political one? (I.2) (1094b)
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  4. Explain Aristotle's objections to Plato's understanding of universal form of "good." (I.6) (1096a-b)
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  5. Why is an understanding of the universal form of "the good" useless? (I.6) (1096b)
  6. What is Aristotle's definition of "the good" and "chief good"? (I.7) (1097a)
  7. What is man's "end"? (I.7) (1097b) Using the definitions in #6, what would a Christian say man's end is?
  8. What is happiness? (
  9. 7) (1098a, 1099b)
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  10. How is Aristotle's definition of happiness different from Solon's? (1100b-1101a)
  11. Does Aristotle think that man has virtue in himself? (II.1) (1103a) What does virtue come from? (1103a-b)
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  12. What is "the mean" and why must we aim at it? (II.2)
  13. Why does Aristotle say that the whole concern of virtue and of political science is with pleasures and pains? How are they used well or badly? (II.3) (1105a)
  14. Why can one not become virtuous solely by listening to Philosophy? (II.4) (1105b)
  15. Why are the virtues not passions? (II.5) (1105b-1106a)
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  16. Give an example of the principle "it is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way." (II.6) (1106b)
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  17. Explain Aristotle's statement, "Moral virtue is a mean." (II.9) (1109a, compare 1106b-1107a)


    18. Overall:

      
  18. What is the relationship between virtue and happiness according to Aristotle?


 

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