"It is on account of the pleasure that we do bad things, and on account of the pain that we abstain from noble ones." Aristotle is on point with what he's saying here, and isn't this, as Christians, something that we have to fight against every day? It's funny to me that Aristotle wasn't a christian because so much of what he said sounded like what Christians believe. Including where he talks about humans receiving virtue but what actually makes us virtuous is the choice to act in those certain, specific ways. In the same way, I believe God gives us each spiritual gifts, but it's our choice to foster those gifts and practice those abilities so that they aren't just potential abilities of ours, but part of who we are. I agreed with Aristotle a lot more and enjoyed reading this a lot more than some of Plato's.
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