The Nicomachean Ethics True or False

1.	"The simply complete thing, then, is that which is always chosen for itself and never on account of something else" (1.7.1097a35). What is this complete good of which Aristotle speaks here? -> Happiness True False
2.	"The result is that if we are perceiving something, we also perceive that we are perceiving; and if we are thinking, that we are thinking. And to perceive that we are perceiving or thinking is to perceive that we exist..." (9.9.1170a32ff). What is Aristotle on about here? -> That the act of self-awareness is uniquely human True False
3.	"Since what is chosen is a certain longing, marked by deliberation, for something that is up to us, choice would in fact be a deliberative longing for things that are up to us" (3.3.1113a10ff). This description of the process of choosing is an example of something: -> voluntary True False
4.	"But if a person harms someone from choice, he acts unjustly; and it is in reference to these acts of injustice that he who does them is himself unjust..." (5.8.1136a2ff). The person in this passage is acting : -> out of ignorance True False
5.	"And the more he possesses complete virtue and the happier he is, the more he will be pained at the prospect of death. For to this sort of person, living is especially worthwhile, and he is deprived of the greatest goods knowingly—and this is a painful thing" (3.9.1117b10-13). Aristotle is speaking here of what type of person? -> A courageous person True False

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