The “Aretaic turn” marked a 20th-century revival of interest in a branch of ethics named for these things. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these things that, according to Nicomachean Ethics, are a golden mean between excess and deficiency.
ANSWER: virtues [accept moral virtues or virtue ethics; prompt on arete]
[10e] This ancient Greek philosopher described his theory of moral virtues in Nicomachean Ethics, which was compiled from his lectures at the Lyceum.
ANSWER: Aristotle
[10h] This 20th-century philosopher helped renew interest in Aristotelian ethics with the essay “Modern Moral Philosophy.” This philosopher coined the term “consequentialism.”
ANSWER: G. E. M. Anscombe [or Elizabeth Anscombe or Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe]
<Anuttam Ramji, RMP - Philosophy> ~20122~ <Editor: Jordan Brownstein>