Surprisingly, as I was reading and contemplating Aristotle's principles on virtue, I found myself agreeing with a good bit of his logic and philosophizing, especially when it spoke on the essence of virtue being a choice and maintaining a balance (mean) when acting on that virtue. However I could not help myself but to question his nature of moral virtue being that of habit "because nature is unable to form a habit contrary to itself." Based on my Christian worldview, I disagree with this. I think that because God has given humanity freewill we are in fact able to form a habit contrary to itself and we are not held to the same standards that the law of gravity (as he gave for an example at the beginning of the reading) holds over objects here on this earth. Therefore, virtue truly is a choice and a maintenance of balance to the standards God has given to us as His imago Dei.
I commented on Travis and Noah's.
Virtue is ultimately derived from God. The choice is ours as to whether we follow it or create our own virtue in a way. You make some really good points here!
ReplyDeleteI completely and totally agree with you. I wrote that virtue is a choice just as we have the free will to make choices. its an action.
ReplyDeleteVirtue is definitely a choice and I believe that as Christians, it is a choice that we should make. Aristotle says that virtue should be a state of character and I believe that, as you said, maintaining a balance to the standards God has given us, will display this character.
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