Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Nicomachean Ethics? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Aristotle says that this virtue is the mean between licentiousness and "insensibility." This virtue is called
abstinence
continence
friendliness
moderation
Q. What does Aristotle call the excess of ambition?
Overbearing
Power-hungry
Trick question. It's just "ambition."
Loneliness
Q. What is the difference between liberality and magnificence?
One's a progressive, the other's a conservative.
One is stingier than the other.
One spends lavishly on common good, the other moderately
One has to do with money, the other with social standing.
Q. Cowardice is directly opposed to what other vice?
Courage
Recklessness
Vanity
Ambition
Q. Justice can be a larger concept, or a virtue. As a virtue then, what do we call its excess?
Nothing. There is no word for this.
Eudaimonia
Injustice
Quarrelsomeness