social ethics questions

5/4/22, 1:18 AM Reading Assignment Questions: Week 1

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Reading Assignment Questions: Week 1

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Provide substantive answers to the three (3) questions:

1. In the early sections of McCarthy's article he discusses what happiness means for Aristotle. Provide some details from this account about what happiness is and how it was necessarily social.

2. McCarthy’s article emphasizes that for Aristotle “the economic management of the household is not the acquisition of commodities but the cultivation of human excellence.” What do you think is the significance of this distinction especially in light of the question above about happiness?

3. From McCarthy's article describe how the development of the market economy in Ancient Greece changed its society. More specifically, from this development of a marketized society what happened to community and how were human nature, human needs, and especially "happiness and the good life" redefined?