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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. With the beginnings of what consideration does Aristotle end the Ethics?
2. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?
3. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that must be avoided, having to do with one's character, according to Aristotle's claims in the beginning of VII.1?
4. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?
5. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?
Short Essay Questions
1. For Aristotle, in what does the relationship between man's nature and his need for friends consist?
2. Explain Aristotle's distinction between affection and friendship.
3. Explain the three sorts of friendship described in Book VIII.
4. Why does Aristotle state that words concerning feelings and actions are less believable than actions themselves?
5. 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?
6. According to Aristotle, why ought a good person be a lover of himself and a bad person not?
7. Why is it difficult, in the opinion of Aristotle, for a person to have many close and virtuous friends?
8. What is meant by Aristotle saying that pleasures from different sources can be impediments to activities?
9. What does Aristotle intend to convey by comparing vice to the disease of consumption (tuberculosis)?
10. Why do friendships of utility quickly come about and subsequently dissolve, according to Aristotle?
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
Analyze in a comparative essay the three archetypal kinds of friends--utility, pleasure, and virtue--as they relate to man and to man's happiness. Which is the most perfect and truest kind of friendship, and why? What does true friendship do for man's moral character? What does true friendship have to do with happiness? What is the relationship between happiness and the lesser levels of friendship? What is the principal lesson that one ought to take away from Aristotle's extensive discussion of the topic of friendship?
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?
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