Exam 6: The Naturalist: Aristotle

For Aristotle, happiness contains an element of

For Aristotle, moral virtue was characterized as

Aristotle s ethics is built of the concept of a hierarchy of

Aristotle rejected naturalistic metaphysics.

Aristotle tended to teach aristocratic children.

Do you believe that Aristotle provides room for the possibility that persons characters might change over the course of their lives? Explain your answer by reference to Aristotle s writings, as quoted in this text. What implications might this issue have for the criminal justice system?

The highest happiness, for Aristotle, comes from a life of

What did Plato believe was the highest form of being?

A thing s triggering cause is its Efficient Cause.

What term do we get for the Greek word for soul ?

Aristotle held, with Solon, that events that occur after a person s death might be said to affect his happiness in life. Do you believe that this view is correct? Why, or why not? Given Aristotle s account of happiness, why might this be a strange view for him to adopt? How might he reconcile it with his position?

Aristotle took over Plato s school when he died.

Do you believe that a person could be made good through habituation? If not, why not? If so, what implications might this have for public education? Explain your answer.

What are moral virtues, according to Aristotle?

Aristotle was known as the Philosopher.

For Aristotle, happiness is a quality of life

For Aristotle, form makes a substance what it is.

Aristotle held that form did not exist independently of the natural order.

Aristotle founded the Academy.

Aristotle has a horizontal account of causation.