Questions on Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

1.    What does Aristotle say everything we do aims at?

2.    What are various ends (or goals) that activities seek?

3.    What do most people seek and why?

4.    What is the goal of a life of money-making?  Does it aim at the good we are seeking?

5.    What is the final good?  What are Aristotle’s criteria for choosing the final good?

6.    What does human life have in common with the life of plants and animals?  How does it differ?

7.    What does Aristotle say about a complete life?

8.    What are the two types of virtue?  What does each require?

9.    Explain Aristotle’s concept of the mean.

10.    Are some things evil in themselves?  Does the mean apply here?