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Exam 8: Virtue Ethics From Tribal Philosophy to Socrates and Plato

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Dworkin believed that the end result is much more important that the means through which people get the end result.

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Like Plato, Freud believed that we can access and control the part of the psyche that houses our desires and drives.

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Which of the following philosophies states that reality is made up of things that can be measured?

Plato gathered Socrates' writings and published them under his own name.

Dworkin believed that a life is valuable only if it produces something, whether it be a book or an invention or a work of art.

What is Socrates' definition of the good life?

According to Socrates, no one is willfully evil, provided that he or she understands the truth about the situation.

In the writings of Augustine, Christianity became a religion that looked to earthly pleasures as the true reason for human existence.

According to Plato, which of the following statements is true about the world of Forms?

In the African "Akan" cultural value system, ethics is perceived as something commanded by God.

According to Socrates, he refused to escape from prison because

Describe Plato's theory of the role of women in his ideal republic, and explain his view of raising children among the guardians. Would this work as a model for an actual society? What aspects of the model might or might not work?

Who speaks the following words? "For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; for no one knows whether death, which men in their fear think is the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

Socrates firmly believed that virtue should be a question of personal choice and that it should be relative to one's own time and culture.

For Plato, the virtue of temperance is achieved when one's desires (appetites) are properly controlled.

What did Socrates mean by saying that only ignorance leads to wrongdoing?

Dworkin writes, "It is difficult to find enough product value in most people's lives to suppose that they have meaning through their impact." Do you agree? What does Dworkin see as an alternative way that a life can have meaning? Explain.

Socrates believed that we cannot hope to attain virtue without the use of our reason.

Virtue ethics is commonly opposed to ethics of character.

In the context of the tripartite soul, the element of reason corresponds to the virtue of