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Socrates' judgment of virtue ✔Correct Answer-no one errs or does wrong willingly or
knowingly
Plato's refined judgment of virtue ✔Correct Answer-virtue comes from knowledge of the real
from the apparent
Plato's Four Essential Virtues ✔Correct Answer-temperance, prudence, courage, justice
Aristotle's redefined virtue ✔Correct Answer--ethical virtue results from living "the good life"
(finding happiness)
-only rational creatures seek the object of happiness; virtue is a habit of the contemplative
existence
Classical Humanist ✔Correct Answer-the recovery of Greek and Latin manuscripts revealed
the conviction that only through study could one become fully human
Venus of Willendorf ✔Correct Answer-ancient standards of beauty
Geisha ✔Correct Answer-Japanese presentations of beauty
Lotus foot ✔Correct Answer-Chinese standards of beauty
Beauty as Gender ✔Correct Answer-Greeks portrayed the male body with a greater
appreciation for beauty
Politics of Beauty ✔Correct Answer-An "ideal beauty is an entity judged admirable, or to
posses features widely attributed in a particular culture
Baldassare Castiglione ✔Correct Answer-published the Book of Courtier which concerns the
qualifications of the ideal Renaissance man & woman
Renaissance Man ✔Correct Answer--physical proficiency & warrior skills
-humanistic education (knowledge of Greek and Latin)
-ability to speak and write well
-compose verse, draw, & play a musical instrument
Renaissance Woman ✔Correct Answer--knowledge of letters, music, and art
-preserve the quality of soft & delicate tenderness
, Leonardo da Vinci ✔Correct Answer-regarded as the first Renaissance Man
aesthetic ✔Correct Answer-a present quality in a thing that gives deep pleasure or
satisfaction
Nicomachean Ethics ✔Correct Answer-Aristotle's best-known work on ethics
critical thought ✔Correct Answer-the faculty of rational and logical analysis believed by
Humanists to achieve virtue
Rene Descartes ✔Correct Answer--uses doubt to investigate the nature of our existence
-insists the only thing in our control is our thoughts
-through doubt, he offers his proof of human existence
"I think, therefore I am."
Friedrich Nietzche ✔Correct Answer-author of The Birth of Tragedy
Responses within the Humanities ✔Correct Answer-Apollonian & Dionysian
Apollonian Response ✔Correct Answer-describes the orderly & rational reaction
Dionysian Response ✔Correct Answer-describes the spontaneous, passionate response
lacking order and structure
alienation ✔Correct Answer-consequence of the Apollonian response
empathy ✔Correct Answer-consequence to the Dionysian response
Myth ✔Correct Answer-tales & beliefs, either generational or contemporary, which are told to
explain Nature, History, or Custom
Archetypes ✔Correct Answer-models by which we comprehend experience, and explain our
reality
Collective Unconscious ✔Correct Answer-Jung's phrase for the universality of many myths &
archetypes among different cultures
Hero ✔Correct Answer-an archetype, real or imagined, who displays virtue for some greater
good
Characteristics of a Hero ✔Correct Answer--birth occurred under wondrous circumstances
-a spectacular deed reveals their destiny for greatness
-a mythological representation of the passage into adulthood
-usually falls from greatness, compensated only by a legacy of glory, honor, or virtue