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Which of the following are Confucian Cardinal Relationships?

A) ruler and subject
B) father and son
C) elder brother and younger brother
D) none of these

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Aristotle's ethics relied exclusively on the emotions in moral life.

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Who is the Confucian disciple who viewed human beings as innately good?

Virtue ethics is the belief that good character can be developed.

Which of the following is a matter of "ritual propriety"?

Virtue ethics is a relatively recent development in ethical theory.

For Aristotle, the two endpoints excess and deficiency) related to the mean are

The feeling or action related to the virtue "modesty" is

Which is the chief Confucian virtue that highlights the natural relationship between the individual and the community?

The Golden Mean or the Aristotelian Mean)is the locus of virtue.

Li is a matter of "ritual propriety."

Who is the most significant modern proponent of virtue ethics?

Aristotle is concerned with action, not as a matter of the action itself being right or wrong, but as it leads to the human good.

Virtue ethics was most famously formulated in ancient Greece by

The excess and deficiency relative to the virtue courage are

The deficiency of courage is rashness.

Confucian "self-cultivation" can be straightforwardly substituted for Aristotelian views.

Virtue ethics dates to ancient Greece and ancient China.

Benjamin Franklin believed that the virtues were________ in character.

Confucian Harmony and Aristotelian Balance are comparable concepts.