COPY: Virtue Ethics: Understanding the Concept of Human Fulfillment
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What is the excess response to the virtue of courage in the doctrine of the mean?

  • Willingness to face danger
  • Dependability
  • Rashness or foolhardiness (correct)
  • Absence

What is the response to deficiency in the doctrine of the mean for the virtue of generosity?

  • Stinginess
  • Being there when someone needs you
  • Giving up time and money (correct)
  • Extravagance or Prodigality

What is the virtue that is the mean between cowardice and rashness or foolhardiness in the doctrine of the mean?

  • Temperance
  • Courage (correct)
  • Generosity
  • Phronesis

What is the deficiency response to the virtue of temperance in the doctrine of the mean?

<p>Insensibility (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of Phronesis in relation to virtue ethics?

<p>To apply moral principles in a flexible way (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between Phronesis and virtue ethics?

<p>Phronesis provides the application of good character traits, and virtue ethics provides the traits themselves. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the ultimate goal of virtue ethics?

<p>To live a flourishing and good life (Eudaimonia). (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is essential for developing virtue, according to the text?

<p>Phronesis, which allows us to apply our moral knowledge to real-world situations. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the doctrine of the mean, what is the relationship between excess and deficiency responses?

<p>Excess and deficiency responses are both bad, and the mean is good. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the result of applying moral principles in a rigid way?

<p>A lack of adaptability to specific circumstances. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the doctrine of the mean?

<p>To identify excess, deficiency, and mean responses to different virtues. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the virtue that is the mean between stinginess and extravagance or prodigality?

<p>Generosity (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the ability to discern the good in a particular situation?

<p>Phronesis (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the result of having Phronesis?

<p>Making sound judgments about what course of action to take. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the implication of not having Phronesis?

<p>Inability to make sound judgments about what course of action to take. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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