Answer one of the questions below following all instructions provide with Paper 1.
1. What is Aristotle’s account of virtue? Be sure to address the following points in your response: habit, state of character and virtue as the mean. Use at least one example of specific virtues from the chart in II.7 to support your answer.
2. What is Aristotle’s distinction between a voluntary and an involuntary action? What account of choice and deliberation does Aristotle offer in Book III? What kinds of things do we deliberate about? What is the relationship between deliberation and practical wisdom for Aristotle?
3. In Book X Aristotle claims that contemplation is the most complete happiness. What argument does he give for this view? What is the relationship between contemplation and practical wisdom? Does Aristotle undermine his Virtue Ethics by claiming that the moral life is a secondary happiness to contemplation? Why or why not?
4. According to Aristotle, what is the function of a human being? How does Aristotle argue for this conclusion? What is the relationship between the human function and the human good?
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