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Phil 201 Quiz 1 Notes Aristotle's stayed in Plato's school for how many years? 20 Aristotle started his own school called what? Lyseum Aristotle neomalcum ethics was named for his his son Aristotle believed that the good is the aim of all action Happiness for Aristotle is praise the highest good Aristotle used the term for excellence called virtue A ________ is made up of dispositions which are made up of virtues character The Greek word Eudaimonia means what happiness Dr. Randy Pousch gave his way ________ in his video 'The Last Lecture' way to live (his philosophy) Martin Luther King Jr. mentor at Boston University was the reverend doctor Dr. Thurmin After the After the Ball was written by whom (Russian) Leo Tolstoy What is relativism? It is when __________ sets the standard for right and wrong enviorment The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights based a lot of their document on The US Declaration of Independence Who wrote the play 'Antigone' Sophocles The main character, Antigone disobeyed the king when she buried her brother The conflict for Antigone was between the human law and the law of the gods Socrates was a _________ philosopher We know about Socrates and his teachings because of the writings of whom Plato Who does Socrates teach Plato A disposition is how-to-like tendencies Plato thought in order to teach morality, we needed to get rid of the ________ poets, playwrights Who did Plato teach Aristotle

Socrates was arrested and died because he was ___________ the youth corrupting Socrates was sentenced to death and given a poison called Hemlock What is a dis-position made up of virtues What is a character made up of dis-positions Aristotle believed that only good-looking could be ____________ happy Aristotle said that besides ugly men, who else could not be happy animals, children, women There are 3 classes of goods that Aristotle had, what were they external goods, goods for the soul, and goods for the body What is Aristotle's definition for happiness functioning well What kinds of examples does Aristotle use for functioning eye-see, cobbler- shoemaker/shoerepair person, What is a dis-position to have a like tendency What is a dis-position made up of virtues Give me an example of a dis-position being happy, sadness -Aristotle is all about functioning well, has to do with the individual -who is the only person you can change? YOURSELF -how do you change yourself? CHANGE YOUR DIS-POSITIONS -virtue is that one thing that you make your aim; to make it a disposition, practice it ......