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Accounting
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11/11/2011

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1) Aristotle was born and died an Athenian citizen.
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False
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2) Give the name of one of the intellectual virtues: _______________
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the scientific part
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3) According to his position in the Categories, which of the following virtues is a "primary substance"?
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C) A specific Horse
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4) What according to Anaximander, was the fundamental "stuff" that made up the nature of the universe? _______________________
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the indefinate
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5) According to Aristotle, could the form of a house be physically removed from its matter?
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B) No the form could not be separated
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For Aristotle, scientific knowledge [episteme] is achieved when three conditions are met. Identify two of them:
6)_________________
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Identify a natural class of beings that forms a genus or species
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For Aristotle, scientific knowledge [episteme] is achieved when three conditions are met. Identify two of them: 7) _________________
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Determine the universal first principles (archai) of that class by establishing necessary definitions (i.e. stating the formal cause)
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8) In Metaphysics XII, Aristotle talks about an "umoved mover." How does this devine being move other beings in the world?
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D) By allowing other beings to participate in its divine essence
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9) According to Aristotle, there is no respect in which a human soul resembles a plant soul.
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B) False
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In Nicomachean Ethics 1.3, Aristotle gives two reasons ta young people should not study eithics. What are they?
10)___________________________
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We are studying actions in life, and familiarity with these requires life experience, young people do not have experience
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In Nicomachean Ethics 1.3, Aristotle gives two reasons ta young people should not study eithics. What are they?
11)___________________________
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young people follow their emotions instead of knowledge
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12) Which life did Aristotle think was happiest?
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B) A life of contemplation and study
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In Nicomachean Ethics 1.7, Aristotle says that any credible proposal for happiness must clear two tests. What are these two tests?
13) ___________________________
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The “completeness” test
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In Nicomachean Ethics 1.7, Aristotle says that any credible proposal for happiness must clear two tests. What are these two tests?
13) ___________________________
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The “self-sufficiency” test
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15) Plato believed that forms . . .
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C) were accessible through careful use of the understanding
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16) In Niomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that human beings have a distinctive "function" What is it?
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the part of the soul that has reason
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According to Aristotle, virtues can be divided ino the
17) ____________ virtues which are excellent states of the purely rational part of the soul and the
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Intellectual
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According to Aristotle, virtues can be divided ino the 18) ____________ virtues which are excellent states in which the part of the soul that is irrational "listens to" or "obeys" the rational part of the soul
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Character
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19) Which of the following describes the relationship of Plato and Aristotle?
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D) Aristotle studied with Plato for 20 years, but then left the Academy
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20) In the Categories, Aristotle makes a distinction between two types of predication. Name one type of predication: _____________________
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x SAID OF y or
y PRESENT IN x
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