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Reading Quiz 4 Name: Nemitt Sopraseuth Date: 11-16-2023 Directions : In your own words, answer the following questions in one to three sentences. If you think some answer could be longer, either summarize your answer more concisely or cover what you can in three sentences, focusing on quality over quantity. Avoid grammatical and spelling errors. Grading : No mark will be made for a correct or mostly correct answer (meaning you ’ ve earned full credit); a “ W ” will be given for a wrong or mostly wrong answer, no answer, or when the grammar is very poor (meaning you ’ ve earned no credit); and an “ H ” will be given for a partly wrong answer, an incomplete answer, or some grammatical errors (meaning you ’ ve earned half credit). Each question is worth 1.5 points, for a total of six points. 1. How does Socrates describe justice? Within Plato’s work in “The Republic”, Socrates is one of the five characters written that muse and desire to define what justice is. (The others being Cephalus, Polemarchus, Thrasymachus, and Glaucon.) After Socrates’ distinguishes the differences between the political justice of the city and the individual justice of man, focus shifts onto the human soul and how the state of it represents one justice. Justice becomes the state at which one’s soul is well-regulated and absent of any injustice, it also becomes the principle of each individual minding one's own business for the greater good, which becomes an intrinsic value to the individual. 2. How does Aristotle describe virtue? Aristotle’s parameters and theories on morality derives itself from distinguishing what kind of traits from humanity can be defined as good or bad, creating what is known as virtues and vices to define them respectively. These are then separated into two different types of vices and virtues, ones that are either moral or intellectual traits; For vices, moral ones can be seen in an individual being cowardice, dishonest, greedy while intellectual ones can be defined by stupidity, ignorance, and bad memory. According to Aristotle’s parameters, we can define a virtue by contrasting it to the vices; traits such as being courageous, honest, and kind define the moral virtues while intellectual virtues is through one’s awareness of knowledge and good recollection of memory.

3. What does Aristotle say about the relationship between virtue and happiness? Happiness is the “highest good” (eudaimonia) according to Aristotle, it is a universal desire that is inherent to human beings, but achieving it is not possible without being virtuous. Being virtuous alone doesn’t lead to happiness and there’s no concrete correlation between the two according to Aristotle, they are neither dependent nor independent of one another. Though one doesn’t lead to the other, striving to live by realizing what they love and find pleasant in life allows one to conclude that they are living virtuously, and by that extent, happy. 4. How does Nietzsche view traditional morality? Nietzsche’s own perspective of morality and ethnics derives from the belief that one must create their own morals and overcome the one’s traditionally set in stone by humanity, he sees traditional morality as a flaw, one formed from highly subjective opinions of the masses that simply hold those who are superior to it back. Traditional morality doesn’t encompass man in all his desired physical and instinctual aspects, it is following an opinion from authority, and Nietzsche would instead promote for one’s own opinion to supersede the individual. With such views formed, Nietzsche also comes to the opinion that this higher standard of morality is not achievable to everyone and only through these people that flourish can there truly be an aversion to nihilism. 2

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