PHI 105 TOPIC 7 QUIZ INFORMATION LITERACY
COMPREHENSIVE SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ What is Aristotle's notion of "the final good?" Answer: That "good"
which all other goods derive their goodness from
◉ What are Aristotle's three most favored lives? Answer: life of
pleasure/gratification, the life of honor, the life of study
◉ What are the two parts of the soul, according to Aristotle?
Answer: Intellectual Virtues and Character Virtues
◉ What is an intellectual virtue? Answer: To calculate, prudence
(practical reasoning), wisdom
◉ What is a character virtue (hint: the doctrine of the mean)?
Answer: A character virtue is a stable state that disposes you to have
the right feelings and to take actions that lay between 2 vices: excess
and deficiency
, ◉ What is the virtuous life? Answer: When rational parts and non-
rational parts both harmoniously aim for the same things and are
both virtuous (IV and CV)
◉ What, according to Aristotle, are the different ways one might be
unhappy? Answer: The life of self-control(RP and NRP aim for
different things, but RP wins), the life of weak-will(RP and NRP aim
for the same things, but NRP wins), the life of vice (RP and NRP aim
for same things, but neither are virtuous)
◉ What is the idealization strategy for normative virtue ethics?
Answer: an act is obligatory iff ALL virtuous people would do x, it is
permitted iff at least one virtuous person does x, and is forbidden iff
no virtuous person does x
◉ What is the exemplar strategy for normative virtue ethics?
Answer: Dump social media and bad influences, study, use your
smarts to identify real role-models who aren't false virtuous or lucky
fools, and practice until you have the same character habits as your
role model
◉ *What is the non-relative (contextualist) account of obligation for
virtue ethics?* Answer: An action is obligatory when it is what a
virtuous person would characteristically do in that specific situation,
given its details, relationships, stakes, and social context
COMPREHENSIVE SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ What is Aristotle's notion of "the final good?" Answer: That "good"
which all other goods derive their goodness from
◉ What are Aristotle's three most favored lives? Answer: life of
pleasure/gratification, the life of honor, the life of study
◉ What are the two parts of the soul, according to Aristotle?
Answer: Intellectual Virtues and Character Virtues
◉ What is an intellectual virtue? Answer: To calculate, prudence
(practical reasoning), wisdom
◉ What is a character virtue (hint: the doctrine of the mean)?
Answer: A character virtue is a stable state that disposes you to have
the right feelings and to take actions that lay between 2 vices: excess
and deficiency
, ◉ What is the virtuous life? Answer: When rational parts and non-
rational parts both harmoniously aim for the same things and are
both virtuous (IV and CV)
◉ What, according to Aristotle, are the different ways one might be
unhappy? Answer: The life of self-control(RP and NRP aim for
different things, but RP wins), the life of weak-will(RP and NRP aim
for the same things, but NRP wins), the life of vice (RP and NRP aim
for same things, but neither are virtuous)
◉ What is the idealization strategy for normative virtue ethics?
Answer: an act is obligatory iff ALL virtuous people would do x, it is
permitted iff at least one virtuous person does x, and is forbidden iff
no virtuous person does x
◉ What is the exemplar strategy for normative virtue ethics?
Answer: Dump social media and bad influences, study, use your
smarts to identify real role-models who aren't false virtuous or lucky
fools, and practice until you have the same character habits as your
role model
◉ *What is the non-relative (contextualist) account of obligation for
virtue ethics?* Answer: An action is obligatory when it is what a
virtuous person would characteristically do in that specific situation,
given its details, relationships, stakes, and social context
