The following are questions I received from all of you. They may prove useful as study questions. Good Luck!
Describe the difference between atechnic and entechnic. How do these contribute to the art of rhetoric?
Describe the "nature of opposites."
When we say "the soul is grieved, rejoices, is confident, and afraid, and again is angry, percieves, and thinks" is it really the soul that is moving?
What is Aristotle's definition of happiness or the good life?
What does Aristotle define virtue to be? How do personal pleasures affect virtues?
Discuss the soul as Aristotle describes it. What are it's functions?
Explain the four causes. Then, choose an item, and analyze it in the form of these four causes.
There are two types of excellence, intellectual and moral. Explain the differences between the
two and how they come about.
What is rhetoric? Describe the three means of persuasion.
What is the difference between the Christian soul and the Buddhist soul?
What is the good life and how does excellence relate to it?
What are the two sorts of things in nature? Describe them.
What realm does the soul reside and define what the soul is in your words.
What distinguishes the three most prominent types of life? Explain the elements of change.
Define the 3 types of rhetoric and explain the effectiveness of each.
What are the three pisteis?
Give an example of each and explain how these means of persuasion help in building one's rhetoric?
What defines "nature" for us, and How does Aristotle define "nature" differently?
What is the Hylomorphic conception and how does it relate to Aristotle's belief of the soul?
What are some of the characteristics that Aristotle describes when he describes a life that pursues "excellency"?
Why does Aristotle say rhetoric has to be handled with care when rhetoric is everywhere?
What is the hierarchy of functions of causality and why is it structured this way?
According to Aristotle, what is the relationship between the soul and the body?
According to Aristotle, how does one achieve excellence?
List and explain the various faculties of the soul.
What is Aristotle's hylomorphic conception of the soul?
What is the role of reason in terms of our excellences?
How is ethics connected to ethos?
Explain the difference between an enthymeme and a paradigm.
A table is made of wood but it is not 'of nature'. Why?
On what level do the soul and the body interact?
Is it possible to lead a 'good life' without having an excellence?
What background conditions make an enthymeme rhetorically valid?
Aristotle states, "Everything which comes to be comes to be out of, and everything which passes away passes away into, its opposite or something in between...So the things which come to be naturally all are or are out of opposites.” (188b22-26) Take any natural thing (i.e. peach) and explain this idea of opposites with how this “thing” changes.
When discussing the soul, how does Aristotle differentiate and define the words “potentiality” and “actuality?”
What are human excellences and how can one reach these excellences?
What does it mean to live a "good life" according to Aristotle?
Is it enough just to learn how to live a moral life? How do habits play into this?
What role do opposites take in determining change?
List and describe the hierarchy of the soul.
What is rhetoric?
What does Aristotle constitute as the universe?
How are the body and the soul reliant upon each other?
What does it mean to be ethical?
What are the three types of rhetoric and define each one thoroughly. Give examples of each, and explain a situation for each where that type of rhetoric would succeed in persuading an audience.
Explain the four main components of a causal analysis and write out the questions that each one asks.
Define monism and dualism and explain the difference between the two. How do each of these relate to the soul?
Give an analysis of one of Sappho’s poems. Use the grid in the Writer’s Handbook as a reference.
Describe the relationship between the body and the soul, describing the affect of each upon the other (i.e. limitations, dependency, etc.).
Define “excellence” in Aristotle’s terms and describe how one can achieve it. Include descriptions of moral and intellectual excellence in your answer.
Describe the functions of the three forms of rhetoric, clearly defining what they are and enumerating any weaknesses they may possess.
Define the concept of hylomorphism.
If whatever is subject to change, it is then qualified as nature/or "natural". Then if this is held to be true what are the different types of information that create change? hint (2 types of info)
According to Aristotle, a "good life" is a life that pursues excellences and/or virtues. Explain what excellence is and the reasons behind excellences as well as the virtues in which Aristotle speaks about.
Explain the idea of "Hylomorphic Conception". How is this idea essential in being "alive"?
According to Aristotle, rhetoric is concerned on "how things are said" but along with Aristotle's opinion, there have been other opinions/arguments on what rhetoric is, explain two differing opinions other than that of Aristotle's that were presented in lecture.
With regard to the use of rhetoric, how does Aristotle’s view differ from the Sophists’?
A final cause asks for what purpose is a thing created. What does Aristotle think about the final cause with regard to what is NOT manmade?
Using the examples of an eye and sight, explain why in Aristotle’s opinion the soul cannot be separated from the body.
Explain how Aristotle believes that the more one trains himself to be ethical, the easier it will be for him to make decisions.
