Chapter - 1 Aristotle

Question 1

Overcomer’s

Answer 1

Those who win over their appetites

Question 2

Continent

Answer 2

Those who are able to resist too much pleasure

Question 3

Enduring

Answer 3

Those who are able to resist suffering in difficult situations

Question 4

Submitter’s

Answer 4

Those who lose over their appetites

Question 5

Incontinent

Answer 5

Those who are unable to resist too much pleasure

Question 6

Soft

Answer 6

Those who are unable to resist suffering in difficult situations

Question 7

What are the two sub-topics of overcomer’s?

Answer 7

Continent and Enduring

Question 8

What are the two types of submitter’s?

Answer 8

Incontinent and soft

Question 9

What two character types did Aristotle believe that humans were made up of?

Answer 9

Rational and Non-Rational

Question 10

Rational

Answer 10

• Reasons and Thoughts
• Analyzes what’s right or wrong
• Aristotle believed this is what distinguishes us from other animals
• Makes intentional decisions

Question 11

Non-Rational

Answer 11

• Appetitive
• Vegetative
• Humans make choices about how to respond to both our emotions and desires

Question 12

Appetitive

Answer 12

The part that has to do with desires and emotions (ex. Dogs, Monkeys, and Cats)

Question 13

Vegetative

Answer 13

Deals with all involuntary functions (ex. Breathing)

Question 14

______ does not make ______

Answer 14

Practice; Perfect

Question 15

________makes________

Answer 15

Practice; Permanent

Question 16

________the competition of making the same action over and over again

Answer 16

Habit

Question 17

________ and________ makes us feel out of control

Answer 17

Emotions; Desires

Question 18

What are the four major character types?

Answer 18

Overcomer, Submitter, Vicious, and Virtuous

Question 19

Vicious

Answer 19

Giving into the appetite

Question 20

Virtuous

Answer 20

People who use their rational part to judge the appropriate way to behave or respond and posses feelings or desires that are in line with their judgements
- Choosing the intermediate way between two extremes

Question 21

Awareness

Answer 21

The things that are happening outside of us

Question 22

Acceptance

Answer 22

Taking it in and owning everything that happens

Question 23

Action

Answer 23

Working on bettering yourself and other to make a community succeed

Question 24

The goal for human life is ________

Answer 24

Happiness

Question 25

Aristotle’s definition of happiness

Answer 25

A balance between the rational and the appetitive side

Question 26

Telos

Answer 26

Everything in the natural world has it’s “telos”