Ethics: Study Help: Quiz

1: Which of the following was one of Plato's nicknames for Aristotle?

a. The thinker

b. Master of those that know

c. The philosopher

d. The mind

2: One major point of Aristotle's ethical philosophy was that

a. the highest good can be achieved by defining justice

b. ethics and psychology are closely related

c. external goods figure in to attaining happiness

d. moral virtue is unattainable

3: Aristotle set forth that if the dead retain any sense of good and evil, it

a. is powerful enough to taint the happiness of a living individual

b. is too weak to make a difference in someone's state of unhappiness

c. directly correlates to the deceased's prevailing state of mind right before (s)he died

d. becomes a free-floating entity that can find a home in anyone seeking enlightenment

4: The human soul, according to Aristotle, is conditioned by what three factors?

a. Genetics, environment, and human action

b. Character, moral values, and emotional context

c. Good, evil, and indifference

d. Emotions, capacities, and dispositions

5: The word that describes the middle point between excess and deficiency is the

a. lesser of two evils

b. moral virtue

c. excess/deficiency line

d. virtuous center

6: Aristotle considered involuntary actions as those that

a. result in commission of an immoral act

b. don't differentiate between right and wrong

c. are performed as a result of ignorance

d. are done in ignorance

7: How did Aristotle respond to Socrates' statement that no man is willingly bad?

a. Man is not the source of his own actions.

b. People voluntarily choose to act morally.

c. Human action is voluntary; human character is involuntary.

d. Men cannot be held responsible for what appears good to them.

8: Courage is a mean between

a. boastfulness and self-depreciation

b. life and death

c. emotion and detachment

d. fear and recklessness

9: The two main obstacles to free choice are

a. ignorance and coercion

b. evil and ignorance

c. consequences and pain

d. apathy and arrogance

10: Magnanimity is also known as

a. ambition

b. high-mindedness

c. soulfulness

d. vanity

11: Aristotle set forth that laws exist only because

a. men can be guilty of injustice

b. involuntary acts require swift punishment

c. righteous indignation is the mean between shamelessness and spite

d. the status and rights of individuals in a democracy are proportionally equal

12: According to Aristotle, three conditions must be fulfilled for friendship to exist between two people. One of those conditions is

a. similar virtue or excellence

b. expectation of shared material abundance

c. mutual goodwill

d. one party's virtue balances the other's weaknesses

13: Aristotle's conception of supreme happiness has drawn criticism because

a. man's bodily nature prevents him from experiencing the highest form of reason

b. inner human nature is rooted in survival, not intellectual pursuits

c. happiness cannot be separated from pain

d. only a gifted few can realize the highest happiness

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