PHI 2380 Final: 2015-04-14 - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics X, ch. 6-9.docx
14 Apr 2015
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Final exam: only on aristotle (not comprehensive, study questions, same format as the midterm + 1 long essay question. If you"re a generous person, you"d deliberate about how best to help people. If you have a bad character, you"re only going to deliberate about how to do bad things (it"s set you can"t change it) It seems that neither the virtuous person nor the bad person are acting freely. If that"s the case, we have a problem removes personal responsibility, praise, fault, etc. Chapter 5: virtue and vice are voluntary (maintains the agent"s accountability) Book 10 chapter 6: the highest good is happiness because it"s self-sufficient and en end in for own sake, happiness is virtue because virtuous actions are actions which we choose for their own sake. No: he argues that amusement isn"t an end in itself, and therefore isn"t the highest happiness. It"s temporary and empty: happiness needs to be an activity chosen for its own sake.
