Ethics Unit 2 Review

From left to right, arrange from teacher to student:

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

What is the focus of Epistemology?

• Morality

• Knowledge

• Logic

Plato and Socrates were _______________

• Empiricists

• Rationalists

• A mixture of empiricists and rationalists

• Neither empiricist nor rationalist

Rationalists believe

• Truth comes from the mind

• Truth comes through sensory information

Aristotle was

• A strict rationalist

• A thinker who only believed in empiricism

• A thinker who believed you should engage both your senses and your mind in order to learn true information

Aristotle noticed that it is impossible to separate an objects form from its material; or it's purpose from its efficient cause. He called this the ____________ of the four causes

• metaphysical hierarchy

• ontological dependency

• cave allegory

• physical unreality

According to Aristotle, the force that shapes material into a design is the ______ cause.

• final

• formal

• efficient

• material

Which cause of existence is synonymous with telos?

• formal cause

• final cause

• material cause

• efficient cause

Choose the term that best describes the balance between vices of excess & vices of deficiency​ (a)  

• The Golden Mean
• Eudaimonia
• telos

When the law that exists in the mind of God is revealed to the heart through scripture or church teaching, it is called the ​ (a)   . When we encounter God’s law in our mind through the rational purpose imprinted on each part of creation, we call this the ​ (b)   . God's idea about how to organize creation, which exists only in God's mind is the ​ (c)   .

• divine law
• natural law
• eternal law