Recently I purchased the new Logos Publishing edition of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It is a beautiful publication, and has commentary from St Thomas Aquinas, St. Albert the Great, St. Bonaventure and others. Along with that I am going through the lecture series on this from Larry Arnn and the one done by Fr. Joseph Koterski SJ. I just finished listening to the recording of the same translation I am reading, read by Andrew Cullum. It is the Ross translation. A beautiful rendition by Cullum. I am about to listen to it again.
It really blows me away at how much of what I learned in home and at Catholic school (as well as so much that I have read through the decades) that draws, knowingly or unknowingly from Aristotle. In the last few weeks I can say that I have become a true follower of Aristotle.
One of my favorite philosophers, Pope St. John Paul II, clearly used Aristotle (and Aquinas, who was an Aristotelian) as his base for his personalism writings such as Love and Responsibility, The Acting Person (also translated as Person and Act) and Man in the Field of Responsibility.
The full commentary of Aquinas just arrived at my home, as well as commentaries on books VIII and IX from Aspasius, Michael of Ephesus, and The Anonymous Commentator. I am on the boat for 1.5 more weeks. I will be reading those commentaries when I return to work two weeks later. There are a number of other commentaries I am going to get on the Nicomachean Ethics. I will update those here as I acquire and work through them.
What has been your experience with Aristotle, or Pope John Paul II’s personalism writings?
It really blows me away at how much of what I learned in home and at Catholic school (as well as so much that I have read through the decades) that draws, knowingly or unknowingly from Aristotle. In the last few weeks I can say that I have become a true follower of Aristotle.
One of my favorite philosophers, Pope St. John Paul II, clearly used Aristotle (and Aquinas, who was an Aristotelian) as his base for his personalism writings such as Love and Responsibility, The Acting Person (also translated as Person and Act) and Man in the Field of Responsibility.
The full commentary of Aquinas just arrived at my home, as well as commentaries on books VIII and IX from Aspasius, Michael of Ephesus, and The Anonymous Commentator. I am on the boat for 1.5 more weeks. I will be reading those commentaries when I return to work two weeks later. There are a number of other commentaries I am going to get on the Nicomachean Ethics. I will update those here as I acquire and work through them.
What has been your experience with Aristotle, or Pope John Paul II’s personalism writings?