For Homer the paradigm of human virtue is the warrior. For Aristotle it is the Athenian gentleman.
The New Testament clearly views the rich as destined for the pains of hell, so hard cheese Aristotle.
Aristotle would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St. Paul.
The New Testament praises virtues of which Aristotle would know nothing.
One Christain virtue, humility, would be to Aristotle a vice.
The acquisition of virtue for Aristotle would have been a means to an end,
but that end would have been internal, whereas with Christianity the end is external.
Source: After Virtue Alisdair MacIntyre
.
The New Testament clearly views the rich as destined for the pains of hell, so hard cheese Aristotle.
Aristotle would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St. Paul.
The New Testament praises virtues of which Aristotle would know nothing.
One Christain virtue, humility, would be to Aristotle a vice.
The acquisition of virtue for Aristotle would have been a means to an end,
but that end would have been internal, whereas with Christianity the end is external.
Source: After Virtue Alisdair MacIntyre
.
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