Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer
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The Ultimate Telos for Aristotle?
Christianity is filled with teleology. But for someone like Aristotle in this kind of pre-Christian period, like what was the ultimate Telos? Like how did Aristotle think if Telos looms large in his sense of human ethics? What was that ultimate Telos for Aristotle before Christianity? I mean, the way to answer that would be to say that Achilles was the Telos,. And so undying fame among mortals was like what Achilles was going for.
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