Aristotle, Heroic Virtue and Perfect Happiness

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于Myth and Religion: The Cultural and Philosophical Significance of the Hero

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Page Range:: 62–77

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004744264_005

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In his writings Aristotle does not discuss explicitly about “heroes.” Within his ethical treatises he only refers once directly to the “heroic virtue.” By this, he means a special and very rare kind of virtue which goes beyond the human measure. The man who possesses heroic virtue is called a “divine man,” precisely because this characterization presupposes the existence of virtue (aretê) to an extremely high degree, exceptional for the common human beings. Aristotle does not analyze with further detail this sort of heroic virtue. Nevertheless, there are several passages of central importance for his ethical and political thought, where he is treating in fact heroic virtues, heroic types of people, and heroic life-conditions, which are taken as perfect, leading exemplars of human life, even though he does not explicitly mention them as heroic. In this paper my aim is to identify them, to present them in their interconnection, and to show that the traditional, almost mythical concept of the epic hero, of the admirable, immortalized human being, has been transformed into an ethical ideal towards which the human efforts have to be directed in life in order to approach happiness.

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Myth and Religion: The Cultural and Philosophical Significance of the Hero

丛编： New Research in the History of Western Philosophy, 卷： 12

ISBN:: 9789004744264

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 21 Nov 2025

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