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Activity On The Good Life
Activity On The Good Life
Directions: Read the material (lecture notes) for this activity and answer the following items.
1. Is that which all things aim for?
2. It is an ancient Greek word which means living and doing well.
3. It is said to be the ultimate end of human action. It is pursued for its own sake.
4. He is the ancient Greek philosopher known for Nicomachean Ethics.
5. A good life means that I make sure I improve without necessarily taking the others into consideration.
True or False?
6. One does not need to eat healthfully to live a good life. True or False?
7. Excellence of character is innate. It does not have to be practiced. True or False?
8. It is the constant practice of the good.
9. For items 9 and 10, give Aristotle’s two kinds of virtue.
10. _
YOUR ANSWERS:
1. Good life
2. Eudaimonia
3. Happiness
4. Aristotle
5. True
6. True
7. True
8. Virtue
9. Intellecfual virtue
10. Moral virtue