Greeks

Cards (10)

  • Which is (are) a type of friendship according to Aristotle?
    Friendships of Utility
    Friendship between a man and wife
    Friendship between a parent and child
  • Elements of virtue:
    It is voluntary. It is deliberative. It is habitual
  • Plato's Republic:
    Described justice in a city as each person doing what he was supposed to do
  • Which is part of the soul, in the way that Plato understood it?
    Reason, Spiritedness, Appetite
  • How does Plato define temperance in the reading from The Republic?Temperance is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasure and desires
  • How does Plato define injustice in the soul in the reading from The Republic?
    As a rebellion of one part of the soul against the soul as a whole
  • Plato's forms were:
    Perfect originals in a spritual realm
  • How did Aristotle's method differ from Plato's?
    Aristotle valued empirical research more as a means of discovering truth.
  • Why does Socrates say suicide is wrong?
    Because we are possessions of the gods and should not kill what the gods possess.
  • Reasons why perfect friendships are rare (Aristotle)
    Because virtuous men are rare and perfect friendship requires time and familiarity.