One can be a Catholic Platonist and Aristotilian, why not a follower of the philosopher Siddhartha? One would have to excise some of Siddhartha’s Hindu baggage, like Zen did, but after that, why not? I could see how one might be able to unite Zen mediation techniques with, say, the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius.
Because the object of following the Five Fold Way is to achieve Nirvana, which is NOT the same as the Beatific Vision but something one might call “the great Silence.” Or you might call it the “Big Freeze,” because it represents the end of all motion. God is not there, Nothing is there. There is no there.
Go on with your bad self then, Gluteus! lol
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Because both Plato and Aristotle were Europeans, even if they were not followers of Christ. When Christianity evolved in Europe, it only appropriated/borrowed cultural ideas and practices of those cultures (god/goddess of this/that became saints defender of this/that; winter solstice became Christmas; and so on. Or, of course, Aristotle’s Natural Law evolved into Christian’s version of it.) Sidharta was not, and the cultures of his followers were not really overlapped with the culture of followers of Christ.
Who knows whether Christians will ever appropriate/borrow components from other cultures again in the future.