MARY ANNTONETH R.

LAPECEROS BSTM-2A
GE-SS 201 ETHICS 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM T-F

 Performance Task # 7
As you have read and view the learning materials, tell me what you think about this matter.

1.) Explain “happiness” as the ultimate good.

"Happiness depends on ourselves." Aristotle enshrines happiness as a fundamental objective of
human life and a goal in itself, rather than anything else. In essence, Aristotle argues that by
preserving the mean, which is the equilibrium between two excesses, virtue is accomplished.

2.) How do we arrive at eudaimonia?

Well-being (eudaimonia) is ultimately achieved by proper creation of one's highest and
most human capacity, and "the rational animal" is human beings. It follows that
eudaimonia is the accomplishment of excellence (areté) in reasoning for a human being.

3.) What does it mean to be virtuous and why a virtuous person should always target the
mean?
Someone who performs the distinctive task of being human well is a virtuous individual. Moral
virtue is characterized by Aristotle as a desire to act in the correct way and as a means
between extremes of deficiency and excess, which are vices.

4.) Explain Saint Thomas Aquinas great grandeur vision of the Christian faith.
Aquinas believed, in the larger sense of his philosophy, that human reason can determine
the presence of God and the immortality of the soul without divine aid; but for those who
can not or do not participate in such strenuous intellectual practice, these matters are still
revealed and can be known by faith.

5.) For Saint Thomas Aquinas, how does man participate of God’s Eternal Plan?
As Thomas thought of philosophy as the discipline that examines what we can naturally
understand about God and human beings, he believed that good Scriptural theology
presupposes good philosophical study and argumentation, since it deals with those same
subjects. Although some works of pure philosophy were written by Thomas, much of his
philosophy is found in the sense of his Scriptural theology. Indeed, also in his Biblical
remarks and sermons, one finds Thomas engaged in the work of philosophy.

6.) What is the Natural Law and how did man recognize that law?
In ethics and philosophy, natural law is a theory that claims that human beings hold
inherent qualities that control our reasoning and actions. Natural law holds that these laws of right and
wrong are innate in persons and are not established by judges of society or court.