Ethics Quiz 4: Virtue Ethics

Happiness is _______ rather than additive: it depends not on external goods, but how we use these external goods wisely.

True happiness is gaining _______ control over your desires and harmonizing the different parts of your soul.

• Emotional

• Rational

• Psychological

• Physical

It is the key to the moral life for it is from a virtuous character that moral conduct and values naturally arise.

It focuses on the development of virtuous character.

In virtue ethics, someone determines ___________ not by consulting rules but by asking what a truly virtuous person would do or whether an action would accord with relevant virtues.

He is the primary inspiration for contemporary versions of virtue ethics.

The highest goal of humanity is the good life or "human flourishing." (Answer is in Greek Term)

Moral actions should be judged by the virtue or _____.

The guide to a moral life is to practice the __________, choose the mean, not the deficit or the excess.

It is process of questioning designed to expose ignorance and clear the way for knowledge.