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Exercise 1. Reading Comprehension Task: Nichomachean Ethics As Discussed in This Lesson

The document discusses whether science and technology should guide humans toward virtue or if ethical standards need to be imposed on science and technology. It presents two opposing viewpoints: 1) It is not the role of science and technology to guide humans toward virtue. 2) Ethical standards must be imposed on science and technology to avoid excesses and deficiencies.

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Exercise 1. Reading Comprehension Task: Nichomachean Ethics As Discussed in This Lesson

The document discusses whether science and technology should guide humans toward virtue or if ethical standards need to be imposed on science and technology. It presents two opposing viewpoints: 1) It is not the role of science and technology to guide humans toward virtue. 2) Ethical standards must be imposed on science and technology to avoid excesses and deficiencies.

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AGREE 9.

It is not the role of science and technology to guide humans toward a


virtuous life.
DISAGREE 10. Ethical standards must be imposed upon science and technology to avoid
excesses and deficiencies.

Exercise 1. Reading Comprehension Task


Instructions: Compare and contrast each pair of terms related to Aristotle's
Nichomachean Ethics as discussed in this lesson.

1. Instrumental Good - Ultimate Good

Instrumental goods are goods that are not chosen for their own benefit, but for the sake of others.
The Ultimate good for Aristotle is eudaimonia, generally translated as "happiness" or
"flourishing." The question then emerges as to how to discern what makes human beings happy,
since it has already been said that the objective or intent of human beings is the focus of the
science of politics/ethics.

2. Pleasure – Happiness

As Aristotle describes it, pleasure is the usual accompaniment to unimpeded action/activity.


Pleasure, as such, is neither good nor bad, but it is beneficial since the result of pleasure perfects
the exercise of the activity. Furthermore, Aristotle points out that pleasure are not to be pursued
for its own sake. On the other hand, Happiness (or flourishing or well-being) is a total and
sufficient good. This means (a) that it is desired by itself; (b) that it is not desired for the sake of
anything else; (c) that it satisfies all desire and has no evil combined with it and (d) that it is
secure and stable.

3. Virtue – Vice
Aristotle describes moral virtue as a tendency to act in the right way and as a means between the extremes
of deficiency and excess, which are vices. We acquire moral virtue mainly through habit and experience,
not through logic and training. In theology, Vice was often characterized as

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