IHUM 201 Exam #2 2026 Exam
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Plato, The Republic The Allegory of the Cave - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The
prisoners free themselves because one wants more knowledge, then gets
out, tells others,
● The individual gets out, but the most important thing is for people to come
back to help others.
○ The way the one guy got out was by changing his view and thinking more
,○ When he comes back, they don't want his help
● The world of forms - variations of tables, one ultimate table
● The whole allegory is symbolic, the endless search of perfection
● They become free by desire to learn, after the escape = civic duty to
come back and bring others to the light
● Message = turn around and see what else is out there
● Thinking is the new arete
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In ethics Aristotle explains
Platonic concept of universal absolute good, happiness is the most
desirable thing, man reasons and is more than animal, we need to be in the
world and not withdraw, children do not have true happiness, can't have
happiness without knowledge, misfortune will not depress the truly happy,
can't have same opportunities if you're poor.
Symbols in Plato's allegory of the cave - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-The cave is our
own state of single-mindedness, state of ignorance, the superficial world
-The fire is a single source of knowledge
-The prisoners are us, anyone who stays in their limited state of mind
,Dialectic Process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Dialectic Process - updated socratic
method
● Thesis ← →Antithesis (new knowledge)
● Thesis Synthesis
○ The 2nd thesis confronts a new Antithesis
○ These two form a new synthesis
■ The new thesis forms
antithesis
● The ultimate goal is to apply knowledge
Absolute Good - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔" That which possesses the perfections
proper to its nature. Something is good absolutely when it is what it should
be."~Catholic Culture
Happiness is the ultimate good according to Aristotle
Happiness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔" Happiness is a mental or emotional state of
well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from
contentment to intense joy. Happy mental states may also reflect
judgements by a person about their overall well-being."~Wikipedia
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, According to Aristotle - we pursue other goods to achieve happiness, poor
can't be happy-- need reason to be happy.
- True happiness comes from cultivation of virtue, balance between two
excesses
Eudaemonia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Human Flourishing.
"is a moral philosophy that defines right action as that which leads to the
"well-being" of the individual, thus holding "well-being" as having essential
value."
Arete - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Virtue or excellence - thinking is the new arete
Virtue Ethics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Virtue comes from a flourishing life = virtue
is balance, moderation in all things!
(Concept comes from Aristotle)
Happiness → Flourishing → Balance → Constancy → Actions = character
ATTRIBUTES: Courage, Temperance, Liberality, Self-control, Munificence,
Good temper, sincere, friendship, temperance, composure, self-control.
Too little and too much are both bad.
Dying Gaul - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hellenistic
Questions and Correct Answers |
New Update
Plato, The Republic The Allegory of the Cave - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The
prisoners free themselves because one wants more knowledge, then gets
out, tells others,
● The individual gets out, but the most important thing is for people to come
back to help others.
○ The way the one guy got out was by changing his view and thinking more
,○ When he comes back, they don't want his help
● The world of forms - variations of tables, one ultimate table
● The whole allegory is symbolic, the endless search of perfection
● They become free by desire to learn, after the escape = civic duty to
come back and bring others to the light
● Message = turn around and see what else is out there
● Thinking is the new arete
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In ethics Aristotle explains
Platonic concept of universal absolute good, happiness is the most
desirable thing, man reasons and is more than animal, we need to be in the
world and not withdraw, children do not have true happiness, can't have
happiness without knowledge, misfortune will not depress the truly happy,
can't have same opportunities if you're poor.
Symbols in Plato's allegory of the cave - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-The cave is our
own state of single-mindedness, state of ignorance, the superficial world
-The fire is a single source of knowledge
-The prisoners are us, anyone who stays in their limited state of mind
,Dialectic Process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Dialectic Process - updated socratic
method
● Thesis ← →Antithesis (new knowledge)
● Thesis Synthesis
○ The 2nd thesis confronts a new Antithesis
○ These two form a new synthesis
■ The new thesis forms
antithesis
● The ultimate goal is to apply knowledge
Absolute Good - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔" That which possesses the perfections
proper to its nature. Something is good absolutely when it is what it should
be."~Catholic Culture
Happiness is the ultimate good according to Aristotle
Happiness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔" Happiness is a mental or emotional state of
well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from
contentment to intense joy. Happy mental states may also reflect
judgements by a person about their overall well-being."~Wikipedia
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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, According to Aristotle - we pursue other goods to achieve happiness, poor
can't be happy-- need reason to be happy.
- True happiness comes from cultivation of virtue, balance between two
excesses
Eudaemonia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Human Flourishing.
"is a moral philosophy that defines right action as that which leads to the
"well-being" of the individual, thus holding "well-being" as having essential
value."
Arete - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Virtue or excellence - thinking is the new arete
Virtue Ethics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Virtue comes from a flourishing life = virtue
is balance, moderation in all things!
(Concept comes from Aristotle)
Happiness → Flourishing → Balance → Constancy → Actions = character
ATTRIBUTES: Courage, Temperance, Liberality, Self-control, Munificence,
Good temper, sincere, friendship, temperance, composure, self-control.
Too little and too much are both bad.
Dying Gaul - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hellenistic
