Nicomachean Ethics Test | Final Test - Hard

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Nicomachean Ethics Test | Final Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?

2. Near the end of X.3, Aristotle says that no one would choose to live their lives having the thinking of what sort of person?

3. From which of the following does Aristotle say the activities of thinking differ in kind?

4. With which of the following conditions does Aristotle compare the incontinent person in VII.10?

5. What is a fitting word for the capacity that Aristotle describes as allowing people to easily achieve one's goal or object?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant by Aristotle saying that pleasures from different sources can be impediments to activities?

2. Explain the relationship Aristotle makes note of between affirming and denying in thinking and pursuing, and avoiding in desiring.

3. What is one reason Aristotle gives for which someone ought not to treat former friends in some way different than strangers if the friendship was dissolved to to an excess of vice?

4. Through the possession of what virtue, according to Aristotle, is man said to have possession of all the intellectual virtues, at least to some degree, and why?

5. In what way does Aristotle agree with Socrates concerning knowledge and moral action?

6. What is the Aristotelian relationship between happiness, the gods, human beings, and animals, as discussed in X.8?

7. Why is it difficult, in the opinion of Aristotle, for a person to have many close and virtuous friends?

8. Why is it said by Aristotle that the lesser types of friendship are called friendship only insofar as they resemble the highest?

9. What does Aristotle intend to convey by comparing vice to the disease of consumption (tuberculosis)?

10. For Aristotle, in what does the relationship between man's nature and his need for friends consist?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A rather interesting part of Aristotle's Ethics is where he describes the relationship between law and justice: for all justice is, in a sense, lawful, but not all laws are just. In a careful interpretative essay, examine this relationship according to the text of Aristotle. What is the nature of law? What is the nature of justice? How do they influence one another? From where do laws come? From where should laws come? Why does justice operate through law?

Essay Topic 2

In many cases, ethical rectitude depends not merely on a bland and level equality between men, but upon a sense of proportionality; justice is not merely ensuring that everyone has the same things, according to Aristotle, but that everyone has that which he is due, according to merit. Examine this claim in a structured analytical essay. Why does Aristotle advocate proper proportionality? In what situations does he advocate it? What are the strengths and weaknesses of his argument? Upon what does his argument depend? Upon what does proportionality depend? What is the relationship between proportionality and the various virtues?

Essay Topic 3

Of the moral virtues, none stands in higher regard than that of one's greatness of soul. Analyze Aristotle's presentation of the great-souled man in a careful and thorough essay, considering both what greatness of soul is in itself and its relationship to all of the other virtues. How does it relate to temperance, courage, generosity, and any of the other moral virtues? How is it related to the intellectual virtues? What are some specific examples of a great-souled man? How does a great-souled man react in specific situations? What makes such a person exemplary for others?

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