Supervisors info:
Στέλιος Βιρβιδάκης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, ΕΚΠΑ
Ευάγγελος Πρωτοπαπαδάκης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα ΦΠΨ, Τομέας Φιλοσοφίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Αραμπατζής Γεώργιος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα ΦΠΨ, Τομέας Φιλοσοφίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Summary:
In this work, the virtue was considered as a fundamental concept of morality and in this respect, the relationship of virtue and morality to the good of life. Initially, we referred to the notion of virtue from the Homeric era. It expressed a wider concept of ethics inextricably linked to customs and customary tradition, up to the time when this concept is modeled on an integrated philosophy (Aristotle, Plato and philosophical systems of the Epicureans and Stoics) that passes through the view of human values and beliefs.
The course talked about contemporary theoreticalist theories and more specifically about the aristotelism that revived in practical philosophy as an expectation to overcome contemporary problems. This request for a revival of the Aristotelian tradition was expressed through the writings of modern intellectuals (Alasdair Maclntyre, Philippa Foot, Elisabeth Anscombe, John McDowell, Rosalind Hursthouse). The demand for the creation of the theories that began as a revival of the ancient Greek anthology, expressing the agony of the modern world to reconnect with the values and principles that contributed to the qualitative elevation of the human spirit.
In this paper, we talk about the virtue in the Orthodox patristic tradition and specifically for Fathers such as Saint John Climacus, Ephrem the Syrian, Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. For these Early Church Fathers, virtue is a conquest and personal experience, a deeper ontological search through action (spiritual and physical exercise). Sometimes embraces the character of temperance, sometimes of longing and patience. However, in order to make the Orthodox approach to ethics more understandable, we studied alongside Roman Catholic moral and Protestant Ethic.
The theology of the Early Church Fathers (also referred to as the holy saints) is empirical and existential. Its impulse in a dependent course with "conventional criteria" and moralistic concepts that cost "true life" and "virtue" of man with "measures of social dignity and ethics".
Finally, a valuation was made of the offer of the New Aristotelian theories, in particular about virtue, and the most important points were noted in which the Patristic Thought "patronize" the Aristotelian anthology, recognizing, on the one hand, the particular importance of right reason and logic in the way that man faces and improves his everyday life. On the other hand, it is clear that man's perfection (teleology) is not only about improving his life but about also saving him.
Keywords:
morality, Virtue theories, revival, Early Church Fathers, Maclntyre, ontological search, Roman Catholic moral, Protestant Ethic, existential theology
