Aristotle Ethics and Crito

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Paper 4

Nicomachean Ethics / Crito

Answer one of the following questions. Your answer should be at least five double-spaced pages long. Title your essay with the number of the question that you are answering – you do not need to repeat the question in your essay. Essays are due at 3:30 on Thursday December 6th. As always, essays will be assessed based on clarity, understanding of the material, and strength of your argument.

1) In book one of the Ethics, Aristotle says that the highest good for people is philosophy, since reason is the unique function of human beings. But there are other things that humans do that other animals don’t. Why didn’t Aristotle say that the highest happiness for human beings comes from cooking, and that all the proper virtues should be cooking-related? Could Aristotle respond to this objection? If so, how?

2) Using what Aristotle says in book 8 and 9 about friendship, would he say that Socrates and Crito are friends? Answer this question based only on what we see in the Crito.

3) Using what Aristotle says about the virtues in book two (and elsewhere) of the Ethics, would Aristotle say that Socrates as we see him in the Crito was virtuous?

Paper 4

Nicomachean

Ethics

/ Crito

Answer one of the following questions. Your answer should be at least five double

-

spaced pages long. Title your essay with the number of the question that you are answering

you do not need to repeat

the question in your essay. Essays are due at

3:30 on Thursday

December 6

th

.

As always, essays will be assess

ed based on clarity, understanding of the

material, and strength of your argument.

1)

In book one of the

Ethics

, Aristotle says that the highest good for people is

philosophy

,

since reason is the unique function of human beings. But there are other thing

s that humans do

that other animals don’t. Why didn’t Aristotle say that the highest happiness for

human

beings

comes from

cooking, and that all the proper virtues should be cooking

-

related? Could Aristotle

respond to this objection? If so, how?

2

)

Using

what

Aristotle say

s in book 8 and 9 about friendship, would he say that

Socrates

and Crito are friends

?

Answer this question

based only on what we see in the

Crito

.

3

)

Using what Aristotle says about the virtues in book two (and elsewhere)

of the

Ethics

,

w

ould Aristotle say that Socrates

as we see him in the

Crito

was virtuous

?

Paper 4

Nicomachean Ethics / Crito

Answer one of the following questions. Your answer should be at least five double-

spaced pages long. Title your essay with the number of the question that you are answering –

you do not need to repeat the question in your essay. Essays are due at 3:30 on Thursday

December 6

th

. As always, essays will be assessed based on clarity, understanding of the

material, and strength of your argument.

1) In book one of the Ethics, Aristotle says that the highest good for people is philosophy,

since reason is the unique function of human beings. But there are other things that humans do

that other animals don’t. Why didn’t Aristotle say that the highest happiness for human beings

comes from cooking, and that all the proper virtues should be cooking-related? Could Aristotle

respond to this objection? If so, how?

2) Using what Aristotle says in book 8 and 9 about friendship, would he say that Socrates

and Crito are friends? Answer this question based only on what we see in the Crito.

3) Using what Aristotle says about the virtues in book two (and elsewhere) of the Ethics,

would Aristotle say that Socrates as we see him in the Crito was virtuous?