PHIL 1027 - FINAL REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PHIL 1027 - FINAL REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Aristotle gives some examples of "activities" that are performed for the sake of a "product", for
example: shipbuilding is for the sake of vessels. In this example which of these, according to Aristotle, is
"preferred" over the other?
a) Shipbuilding
b) Vessels
c) Neither
Answer:
b) Vessels

Question:
2. T/F? According to Aristotle, all actions aim at the good.
Answer:
True

Question:
3. T/F? According to Aristotle, an educated man should only believe those things that can be given a
demonstrative proof.
Answer:
True

Question:
4. T/F? According to Aristotle the young are not not "proper hearers" of lectures on political science.
Answer:
True

Question:
5. According to Aristotle, what word do both "the general run of men" and "people of superior refinement"
use to name the highest good achievable by action?
a) "virtue"
b) "happiness"
c) "pleasure"
d) "good"
e) "honor"
Answer:
b) "happiness"

Question:
6. Aristotle defines happiness as:
a) A life of enjoyment
b) A life of honor
c) A life of wealth
d) None of the above

, Answer:
d) None of the above

Question:
7. According to Aristotle the final good (the chief good) is
a. Desirable for its own sake and also for the sake of something else
b. Unattainable
c. Desirable for the sake of something else
d. Desirable for its own sake and never for the sake of something else
Answer:
d. Desirable for its own sake and never for the sake of something else

Question:
8. What, according to Aristotle, is the "function" of a flute player?
Answer:
According to Aristotle, function of the flute player is to play the flute, and for a good flute player to play
the flute well.

Question:
9. What, according to Aristotle, is the "function" of a human being?
Answer:
The function of a human being according to Aristotle is to act rationally, and to have a rational soul. In
order for someone to have a rational soul, and to be acting rationally, they must be acting virtuously. The
act of being virtuous and practicing those virtuous acts is what makes a human rational, and striving for
Eudaemonia(happiness).

Question:
10. T/F? According to Aristotle, someone who does not enjoy being just, isn't just.
Answer:
True

Question:
11. T/F? According to Aristotle, young children can't be happy.
Answer:
True

Question:
12. Give an example of something that Aristotle calls an "external good."
Answer:
One example of an external good, according to Aristotle, would be wealth.

Question:
13. Aristotle begins book II by saying, "Virtue, then, being of two kinds." What are the two kinds of
virtue?
Answer:
The two kinds of virtue are intellectual and moral virtue.