Mahad Mirza

Mohammad Khan
Prof. Han
2/27/17
Exercise 5 Questions
1. For Aristotle, the good has rightly been declared to be that at which
all things aim, which basically means that the nature of the products
of our actions to be better than the activities.
2. It is generally agreed to be happiness, but there are various views as to
what happiness really is.
3. The people of superior refinement identify happiness with honor, and
the vulgar people identify happiness with pleasure.
4. He believes happiness as the chief good of mankind because it is final
without qualification and doesnt need to be attained for the sake of
something else.
5. Aristotle states the function of man to be a certain kind of life; the
activities or actions of the soul, with rational principle, and the good
performance of those actions.
6. He says we usually use friends, riches and political power, but the real
external goodness comes from good birth, good children, and beauty,
and virtue.
7. Intellectual and Moral virtue
8. If a virtue (mean) experiences excess or deficiency, it becomes a vice.
For example, the excess of bravery would be rashness, and the
deficiency would be cowardliness.
9. According to Aristotle, we learn moral virtue primarily through habit
and practice rather than through reasoning and instruction.
10. Aristotle is basically saying that it is no easy task to balance the excess
and deficiency, or virtues and vices.