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WorksheetsAristotle and Plato Revision
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 23mins
For Aristotle, the aim of life is to reach:
Heaven
Eudaimonia/Happiness
Death
Phronesis
Draw the leaky jar or the gully bird
Which is not advice for finding the Golden Mean?
Consider what a virtuous person would do
Always be wary of pleasure
Always consider your own nature
Avoid the vice that is closest to the mean
For Aristotle, what is the chief good?
Pleasure
Happiness
Money
Honour
Aristotle describes virtue as
An act we always do well
To be good at all times
Something you have naturally
A mean between two extremes
For Aristotle, the first criteria of being virtuous is...
Doing a virtuous action
Thinking about what is virtuous
Performing an action with the knowledge of it being virtuous
Trick question! There is no criteria
Aristotle believes we can achieve happiness by
Completing our function (reason) well/with virtue
By having virtues
Completing our function (reason)
By completing our function (reason) well/with pleasure
What does it mean to be 'virtuous'?
To do moral duties
To have good feelings
To have a good character
To have habits
How did Aristotle think that virtue could be acquired?
It's natural
By the gods
Through habits and actions
You can't. It's impossible.
According to Aristotle, if someone is a coward (vice), how do they become brave (virtue)?
Avoid situations that produce fear and anxiety
Welcome opportunities where they can deliberately practice courage
Research about what it means to be brave
Find a brave buddy to balance you out
According to Aristotle, it makes ___ the difference what habits we learn as young children.
(a)Which of the following statements about Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean is correct?
The mean is the exact middle point between two opposing vices.
Virtues and vices exist in sets of opposing pairs.
The mean between two opposing vices may be much closer to one vice than the other.
The virtuous mean is the same for all people.
Which of the following does Aristotle consider to be the worst?
Being great and expecting great honors
Being mediocre and expecting great honors
Being great and expecting moderate honors
How is justice different from virtue?
Virtue is just one form of justice.
Justice deals with our relations to others, while virtue is a state of being.
Justice can be a vice in the wrong hands.
Justice is a human invention while virtue exists objectively.
Which of the following most accurately reflects Aristotle’s view of pleasure?
It is always bad.
It is a process of restoration.
It distracts us and keeps us from thinking straight.
The pleasure of a virtuous person is the supreme good.
According to Aristotle, what is the role of reason in achieving virtue?
Reason is irrelevant to virtue.
Reason helps us identify the mean between extremes.
Reason leads us to pleasure.
Reason is only useful for scientific knowledge.
What does Aristotle believe is necessary for a person to be truly happy?
Accumulating wealth
Living a life of virtue
Gaining power
Seeking constant pleasure
How does Aristotle define 'moral virtue'?
As a natural talent
As a habit developed through practice
As a divine gift
As an intellectual achievement
Organise the following in accordance to the Golden Mean
Courage
Rashness
Cowardice
Determination
Greed
Laziness
Impulsiveness
Indecisiveness
Self-control
Generosity
Stinginess
Wastefulness
According to Socrates, what should be the use of rhetoric?
to denounce one's own and one's friend's crimes
to conceal one's own and one's friend's crimes
Which of the following does Socrates declare to be worst?
to suffer wrong
to do wrong without punishment
to do wrong with punishment
to benefit from wrongdoing
According to Socrates, who is the most happy?
those with power
those with wealth
those who satisfy their desires
those who need nothing
Cooking
Medicine
Rhetoric
Philosophy
Callicles likens Socrates' life of self-restraint to that of a (a)
To be deemed 'Good' for Socrates, there must be: (a)
