2. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Sexual deviance.
(b) Intellectual virtue.
(c) Pleasures.
(d) Pains.

3. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?
(a) Congenial.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Lecherous.
(d) Truthful.

4. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?
(a) Cleverness.
(b) Modesty.
(c) Truthfulness.
(d) Nobility.

5. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?
(a) Contractual.
(b) Conventional.
(c) Natural.
(d) Empirical.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?

2. A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what?

3. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?

4. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?

5. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the proper distinction Aristotle makes between things that are good in themselves and things that are good only in a derivative sense? Illustrate this distinction by means of an example.

2. What is the tripartite distinction in the soul that Aristotle makes in Chapter 13 of the first book?

3. What is the relationship that Aristotle cites as existing between opposites in coming to know what is or is not the right way for a thing to be, such as health?

4. According to Aristotle, in what way is justice reciprocal, and why?

5. What does it mean to say, as Aristotle explains it, that nothing can be habituated to be other than it is by nature?

6. What is the distinction Aristotle makes between magnificence and generosity?

7. What characterizes Aristotle's notion of the generous person?

8. What is Aristotle's distinction between the sort of injustice that is unlawful and the sort of injustice that is inequitable?

9. Why does Aristotle say that the things deliberated about are not ends?

10. What is the distinction between the mean in the thing itself and the mean in relation to a man as Aristotle explains it?

(see the answer keys)

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