Aristotle Flashcards
(27 cards)
Birth and death
384 - 322 BC
Famous tutor to
Alexander the Great
Research & teaching center founded by Aristotle
The Lyceum
Name of Aristotle’s followers
Peripatetics - wanderers
Four central questions
What makes people happy?
What is art for?
What are friends for?
How can ideas cut through in a busy world?
Key ingredients of a good life
The golden mean
Knowing how to have a good conversation
Moral goodness
Virtues & Vices : Fear & Confidence
Deficiency : Cowardice - deilia
Mean : Courage - andreia
Excess : Rashness - thrasutes
Virtues & Vices : Pleasure & Pain
Deficiency : Insensibility - anaisthesia
Mean : Temperance - sophronsund
Excess : Licentiousness - akolasia
Virtues & Vices : Getting & Spending (minor)
Deficiency : Illiberality - aneleutheria
Mean : Liberality - eleutheriotes
Excess : Prodigality - asotia
Virtues & Vices : Getting & Spending (major)
Deficiency : Pettiness - mikroprepeia
Mean : Magnificience - megaloprepeia
Excess : Vulgarity - apeirokalia, banausia
Virtues & Vices : Honour & Dishonour (major)
Deficiency : Pusillanimity - mikropsuchia
Mean : Magnanimity - megalopsuchia
Excess : Vanity - chaunotes
Virtues & Vices : Honour & Dishonour (minor)
Deficiency : Unambitiousness - aphilotimia
Mean : Proper ambition
Excess : Ambition - philotimia
Virtues & Vices : Anger
Deficiency : Lack of spirit - aorgesia
Mean : Patience - praotes
Excess : Irascibility - orgilotes
Virtues & Vices : Self-expression
Deficiency : Understatement - eironeia
Mean : Truthfulness - aletheia
Excess : Boastfulness - alazoneia
Virtues & Vices : Conversation
Deficiency : Boorishness - agroikia
Mean : Wittiness - eutrapelia
Excess : Buffoonery - bomolochia
Virtues & Vices : Social Conduct
Deficiency : Cantankerousness - duskolia
Mean : Friendliness - philia
Excess : Obsequiousness - areskeia / Flattery - kolakeia
Virtues & Vices : Shame
Deficiency : Shamelessness - anaischuntia
Mean : Modesty - aidos
Excess : Shyness - kataplexis
Virtues & Vices : Indignation
Deficiency : Malicious enjoyment - epichairekakia
Mean : Righteous indignation - nemesis
Excess : Envy - phtonos
Famous playwrights
Aeschylus
Euripides
Sophocles
Artistotle’s guide to write great plays
The Poetics
Sophocles’ most famous play
Oedipus
The point of tragedy
catharsis - purging of emotions
The point of art
Make profound truths about life stick in our minds
The kinds of friendships
Fun seeking
Strategic acquaintances
True friend
