Philosophy activity, developed for first-year high school students, with questions about the philosophers Plato and Aristotle.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
1) Read the biographies below and fill in the gaps with the names of the philosophers shown in the images above:
a) Born in Athens, ____________ (427-347 a. C), belonged to one of the noblest Athenian families. His real name was Aristocles, but because of his physical build he was given a nickname, a Greek term meaning "broad shoulders."
b) Born in Stagira, Macedonia, ____________ (384 – 322 a. C.) was one of the most expressive Greek philosophers of Antiquity. There is information that he would have written more than a hundred works on the most varied subjects, of which only 47 remain, although not all of them have proven authenticity. Son of Nicomachus, physician to the king of Macedonia.
2) For Plato, the human being is essentially a soul, which is immortal and exists prior to the body. The union of the soul with the body is accidental, since the soul's proper place is not the sensible world, but the intelligible world. For Plato the soul would be divided into three parts. Explain each of them?
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3) In Plato's understanding, the world ____________, the one we perceive through the five senses, is deceptive. In him everything is unstable and through him there can be no happiness. Therefore, for Plato, the path to happiness is the abandonment of the ____________ of the senses towards to the world of ____________, until reaching the supreme knowledge of ____________, corresponding to the idea of good. Check the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the above fragment:
a) material, ideas, illusions, reality
b) real, ideas, disappointments, reality
c) material, illusions, ideas, reality
d) real, material, ideas, reality
4) What theory did the philosopher Aristotle advocate so that it would be possible for human beings to achieve true happiness?
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5) Which elements would promote well-being, social peace, in addition to contributing to the complete happiness of human beings, according to Aristotle?
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6) Among the elements proposed by Aristotle for a happy life, highlight those that you consider a necessary condition for your happiness? Are there any that, in addition to being necessary, are a sufficient condition to be happy? Which? Explain?
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By Rosiane Fernandes Silva- Graduated in Letters and Pedagogy and postgraduated in Special Education
At answers are in the link above the header.
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