Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?
2. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?
3. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?
4. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?
5. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. According to Aristotle, in what way is justice reciprocal, and why?
3. What is Aristotle's distinction between the sort of injustice that is unlawful and the sort of injustice that is inequitable?
4. With what virtuous dispositions are Book IV, Chapters 6-9 concerned?
5. Explain Aristotle's distinction between the good and the apparent good, and those who pursue each, as given in III.4.
6. Explain what is meant by Aristotle in saying that youth should not be involved in the study or practice of politics.
7. In what way does Aristotle state that it is impossible for one to do injustice to himself?
8. What is the content of the suggestion of Aristotle regarding overcompensation and the acquisition of personal virtue?
9. What characterizes Aristotle's notion of the generous person?
10. What are the conditions Aristotle gives for properly calling someone happy in Book I, Chapter 9, and why does he give these?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compose an analytical essay which presents a clear thesis on some aspect of justice as Aristotle discusses it in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics. Be sure to answer the following:
-What is justice?
-Why is justice a virtue?
-What is unique about justice as a virtue?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Though not addressed as explicitly in the Ethics, a persistent topic around which much of Aristotle's philosophical inquiry circles is the relationship between friendship and the community. Analyze this topic in a carefully developed essay, considering both the way in which friendship influences the community and how community influences friendships. What is the effect of virtuous, true friendships on a community? Upon what principles do such friendships exist, and why are these important to a solid community? What are the conditions of the community that help create such friendships? In what way are these two things reciprocal in terms of giving to one another?
|
This section contains 1,083 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
