Chapter 3

Question 1

Nichomachean Ethics is written by

Answer 1

Aristotle

Question 2

He is considered as “The Philosopher” in the Middle Ages

Answer 2

Aristotle

Question 3

Nichomachean Ethics is a treatise on the nature of __________ and __________, based on the unique essence of human nature

Answer 3

moral life; human happiness

Question 4

True or False

Nichomachean Ethics is named after one of Aristotle’s students

Answer 4

False

Question 5

It outlines that ultimate goods are better than instrumental goods

Answer 5

The Greatest Good: Eudaimonia / Eudaimonia

Question 6

True or False

Every action aims at some good

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False

Instrumental goods and ultimate goods are aimed at for their own sakes

Answer 7

False

Question 8

These are aimed at only insofar as they are for the sake of something else

Answer 8

Instrumental Goods

Question 9

Which among the following are the candidates of ultimate good?
Happiness, Wisdom, Wealth, Fame & Honor, Pleasure

Answer 9

Pleasure, Wealth, Fame & Honor, Happiness

Question 10

The critique of this ultimate good critique is complete and self-sufficient

Answer 10

Happiness

Question 11

The critique of this ultimate good critique is transient and not complete

Answer 11

Pleasure

Question 12

The critique of this ultimate good critique is only instrumental and not self-sufficient

Answer 12

Wealth

Question 13

The critique of this ultimate good critique depends on others and not self-sufficient

Answer 13

Fame & Honor

Question 14

Well-being or doing well

Answer 14

Eudaimonia

Question 15

Activity of the soul in accordance with virtue or excellence

Answer 15

Eudaimonia

Question 16

More complete than merely feeling good or joyful

Answer 16

Eudaimonia

Question 17

Feeling well in all aspects of life

Answer 17

Eudaimonia

Question 18

Human happiness consists of a rationally __________

Answer 18

directed life / a whole life

Question 19

Aristotle’s Tripartite Soul

Answer 19

Rational: Human
Sensitive: Animals
Nutritive: Plants

Question 20

A __________ is what makes one function well; usually understood as a disposition or state of a person

Answer 20

virtue

Question 21

Conditions for virtue

Answer 21

fortune and success

Question 22

This type of virtue is achieved through education and time

Answer 22

Virtues of thought

Question 23

This type of virtue is achieved by habitual practice

Answer 23

Virtues of character

Question 24

Type of virtue: generosity, temperance, courage

Answer 24

Virtues of character

Question 25

Type of virtue: wisdom, comprehension

Answer 25

Virtues of thought

Question 26

Both type of virtue should be in accord with ________ and are needed for __________

Answer 26

reason; Eudaimonia

Question 27

Virtue is ruined by __________ and __________

Answer 27

excess and deficiency

Question 28

A balance or intermediate between extremes

Answer 28

The Golden Mean

Question 29

A mean relative to the __________, the __________, as well as the right __________

Answer 29

person; circumstances; emotional component

Question 30

The right action and emotional response in the face of danger

Answer 30

Courage

Question 31

Is an excess of the emotional and/or proper action (doesn’t properly appreciate the danger, not fearful)

Answer 31

Fool-heartiness or rashness

Question 32

Is the deficiency of proper emotion (motive) and action (the danger is over-appreciated, too fearful)

Answer 32

Cowardice

Question 33

Arete

Answer 33

Virtue

Question 34

A disposition or character trait (intellectual, emotional) to choose or be motivated to actions that are a relative intermediate between extremes of excess and deficiency.

Answer 34

Virtue / Arete

Question 35

Rationally guided, whole life; complete with emotion, intellect, action, sociality, etc.

Answer 35

Eudaimonia

Question 36

Authored "The Question Concerning Technology"

Answer 36

Martin Heidegger

Question 37

Technology can be viewed as a means to an end

Answer 37

Instrumental

Question 38

Technology can be viewed as human activity

Answer 38

Anthropological

Question 39

Responsible for the effect

Answer 39

Cause

Question 40

Indebted to the cause

Answer 40

Effect

Question 41

According to Aristotle, how many ways causality holds

Answer 41

Four

Question 42

Four relations to Causality

Answer 42

Causa materialis Causa formalis Causa efficiens Causa finalis

Question 43

Raw material

Answer 43

Causa materialis

Question 44

Form it assumes

Answer 44

Causa formalis

Question 45

Purpose or utilities

Answer 45

Causa finalis

Question 46

Manufacturer

Answer 46

Cause efficiens

Question 47

``` True or False Causa materialis: Bronze Causa formalis: Chalice Causa efficiens: Bronzesmith Causa finalis: for Holy Communion ```

Answer 47

True

Question 48

Underlies causality is a bringing out of concealment

Answer 48

The bringing forth / Poeisis

Question 49

Greeks call this the truth

Answer 49

aletheia

Question 50

True or False Technology brings forth as well, and it is a revealing

Answer 50

True

Question 51

This is seen in the way the Greeks understood techne, which encompasses not only craft, but other acts of the __________ , and __________

Answer 51

mind; poetry

Question 52

Revealing of modern technology

Answer 52

Challenging-forth

Question 53

It challenges nature, by extracting something from it and transforming it, storing it up, distributing it, etc.

Answer 53

Modern technology: challenging-forth

Question 54

Heidegger calls the essence of modern technology

Answer 54

Challenging-forth to revealing

Question 55

Essence of modern technology

Answer 55

Poiesis; violent

Question 56

Factory

Answer 56

Challenge-forth

Question 57

Planting

Answer 57

Bring-forth

Question 58

Mining

Answer 58

Challenge-forth

Question 59

Recycling

Answer 59

Bring-forth

Question 60

Windmills

Answer 60

Challenge-forth

Question 61

Essence of technology

Answer 61

Enframing

Question 62

Instrument of technology

Answer 62

Man

Question 63

Modern technology takes all of nature to | stand in reserve for its exploitation

Answer 63

The Standing-Reserve

Question 64

It is not man that orders nature through technology, but a more basic process of revealing

Answer 64

Enframing

Question 65

In ___________, the actual is revealed as a standing- | reserve

Answer 65

enframing

Question 66

This is like putting nature in a box or in a frame so that it can be better understood and controlled according to people’s desires

Answer 66

Enframing

Question 67

Concealed in enframing as nature is viewed as an orderable and calculable systems of information

Answer 67

Poeisis

Question 68

Heidegger proposes __________as a way out of this enframing

Answer 68

art

Question 69

Most poetic

Answer 69

Nature

Question 70

Poeisis of the fine arts

Answer 70

Techne

Question 71

The human person being swallowed by technology

Answer 71

Danger

Question 72

Wrote that the saving power grows where danger is

Answer 72

Hölderlin