The Christian mystery and the presence and absence of God

Allen Vigneron

pp. 181-189

in: John Drummond, James G. Hart (eds), The truthful and the good, Berlin, Springer, 1996

Abstract

Any display of the achievement of an outstanding thinker should register once again the eminent degree to which he possesses what Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics calls the "episteme and nous of objects which by their nature are most to be honored."¹ Those concerned with honoring a wise man, as wise, must attest to how well he has accomplished that "disclosure of the arche" which Aristotle in the Ethics says is the hallmark of such a person.²