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8 Cards in this Set
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Practical Sciences
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Form in Action
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1.Ethics
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a. Requirements for the study of ethics include life experiences and an all-around education.
b. Characteristics of ethics |
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d. Happiness is the highest good: "happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world"
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1) Three perspectives
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a) Vulgar or ordinary happiness is identified with sense pleasure and suitable to beasts.
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b) Political happiness refers to honor or vertue (Aristotle focused on this sense)
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c) Contemplative happiness is metaphysical wisdom.
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2) Meaning of happiness
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a) It is always desirable in itself without qualification
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b) As self-sufficient, it is adequate to one's social situation
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c) Happiness is "an activity of soul in accordance with perfect virtue"
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d) Pleasure and wealth accompany happiness
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1) Moral virtues regulate the irrational impulses of feelings of man
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2) Intellectual virtues focus on the rational
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