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To: Zyke

Read Aristotle - NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS - One must be virtuous [ethical] in order to live a happy life... No God required.


4 posted on 01/27/2005 9:16:25 AM PST by Lexington Green (Follow the money - Saddam to Rich to Clinton)
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To: Lexington Green

Or the Kantian categorical imperative. Fifteen minutes of googling would have told the questioner everything he might have wanted to know about this, but of course that's not the point here.


6 posted on 01/27/2005 9:20:04 AM PST by general_re (How come so many of the VKs have been here six months or less?)
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To: Lexington Green

Aristotle fed off Plato's values which were downright theistic. Aristotle failed to establish First Causes of his values apart from Plato, which is why modernists pretty much ignore the poor guy except to trod him out when he serves their purpose.


49 posted on 01/27/2005 10:10:05 AM PST by dangus
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