What is the human function, according to Aristotle is
virtue
Rational activity
courage
pleasure
happiness
According to Aristotle, virtue is ___ but not___for living the good life
Difficult - important
Important - necessary
Helpful - necessary
Sufficient - necessary
Necessary - sufficient
According to Aristotle, a good that is complete (final)
Valuable for its own sake, intrinsically
Never valuable for the sake of something else
Not valuable
All of the above
A and b
Which of the following is not a virtue of character?
temperance
generosity
Theoretical wisdom
None of the above
According to Aristotle, happiness (or eudaimonia) is the highest good for humans because it is the only good that is
Self sufficient
Complete or final
Instrumentally valuable
A, b, c
If an action is virtuous then, according to Aristotle, it must be
Pleasing to the one performing it
The product of a disposition acquired by habituation
Performed for the right reason
The ability to decide in accordance with the Doctrine of the Mean requires which intellectual virtue according to Aristotle
Practical wisdom
According to Aristotle, practical wisdom
Excellence at contemplation
Excellence at deliberation
Having good ends
B and C
Aristotle argues that virtue is acquired through habituation. This in tension is with his claim that
Eudaimonia the highest good
We can be held responsible for our characters
Virtuous activity is pleasant
Having virtue is a necessary condition for being happy
The Ancient Greek term eudaimonia is often translated in English as “happiness” but a less misleading translation in the context of Aristotle’s philosophy would be
Virtue
Deliberation
Pleasure
Justice
Humane flourishing
According to Hume, reason
Cannot motivate by itself
Is the slave of passion
Determines whether our ideas are true or false
Cannot combat passion
According to an ethical subjectivist like Hume, making a moral distinction (e.g. Lying is wrong) is
Making a judgement that can be rationally assessed
An attempt to represent the facts
A display of virtue
Expressing a particular kind of sentiment
There is a significant amount of agreement amongst us regarding the more distinctions we make Hume explains this by appealing to a particular feature of human nature, namely
Utility
Sympathy
Passion
According to an ethical subjectivist like Hume, someone who utters “Cheating is wrong!” us saying something
True
False
Reasonable
Unreasonable
Ideas, but not impressions, are true or false (or reasonable/unreasonable) because ideas, unlike impressions
Are always true
Are always false
Purport to represent how things are
Are just given
Feel good
Pleasure is a complete good but not the highest good,according to Aristotle
There is only one kind of rational activity, acc to aristotle, namely, contemplation
According to Aristotle, a person can be generous but not courageous
According to Aristotle, a person can be practically wise, but not theoretically wise
Virtues of character are explained by Aristotle in terms of means between excesses and deficiencies
All actions are capped by good (or real) pleasures, according to Aristotle
All of our actions aim at some ultimate purpose, according to Aristotle
According to Hume, ethics has nothing to do with subjective feelings
Some passions are unreasonable in and of themselves, according to Hume
According to Hume, what looks like a battle between reason and passion is really a battle between a calm passion and a violent passion
Hume argues in favor of the view that reason can motivate us all by itself
Some of our impressions are false, according to Hume
There is always a way to resolve an ethical disagreement by appeal to reason, according to an ethical subjectivist
Ethical subjectivism is a normative ethical theory
According to Hume, reason’s job is to serve the passions
