>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 10 06:52:02 1999 >Received: (from majordomo@localhost) > by mill.venus.co.uk (8.8.6/8.8.6) id OAA28193 > for moq_discuss-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:45:55 GMT >Received: from mark.nemr.net (mark.nemr.net [207.177.88.5]) > by mill.venus.co.uk (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA28189 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:45:51 GMT >Received: from a7q2u3 ([207.177.31.148]) by mark.nemr.net > (Post.Office MTA v3.5.1 release 219 ID# 0-58568U4000L400S0V35) > with SMTP id net for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:46:02 -0600 >Message-ID: <001b01be5504$592b6980$941fb1cf@a7q2u3> >From: "Yellow Creek's Mail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:47:56 -0600 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0018_01BE54D2.0DEAA760" >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Found some interesting ideas that Aristotle had. For one Aristotle = >believed in something called the Golden Mean. Which meant that to have = >happiness a person had to stay between two extremes. In other words = >moderation. I also have found out that to Aristotle this happiness was = >the same word for excellence that the Greeks used. Namely, Arete. = >Aristotle believed that since rationality distinguished man from = >animals, that rationality must be the highest excellence or arete. Not exactly! The highest Happiness was achieved by living one�s life in closest accord with, Excellence, in all areas of Being or Living! The Intellect was just one aspect of being that was over stressed, thus putting Western ideas of Happiness, out of Balance, with the Golden Mean. This imbalance and straying from the Real Meaning of Arete is what has caused so much trouble and error and put the West off the Path of it�s original Destiny. Best regards, Paul. We = >all know where this line of thought has put us today. But I thought it = >was interesting to note Aristotle's reasons for this way of thinking. >=20 >And another thing that I would like to point out is that really the idea = >of this excellence or quality in the intellect being the highest good = >might have orginated with Socrates. Socrates did say "Virtue is = >knowledge." And the virtue to the Greeks was also the same word that = >they used for excellence. > >It is my opinion that the Greeks loved knowledge so much that it = >polluted them from understanding the fundamental relationship-that = >knowledge is good, but good only if kept in it's right place. >=20 >Regards, >=20 >Jason Nelson > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com MOQ Homepage - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
