Happiness – The Chief Good – Aristotle
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Now of the Chief Good (i.e. of Happiness) men seem to form their notions from the different modes of life, as we might naturally expect
Aristotle – Happiness Is Manifestly Something Final and Self-Sufficient
Happiness we assume to be in every way an end and complete. Happiness belongs to the class of things precious and final – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Happiness Is Living Well, Though Its Nature Is in Dispute
HAPPINESS both the multitude and the refined few call it, and “living well” and “doing well” they conceive to be the same with “being happy
Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment – κατακαυχᾶται ἔλεος κρίσεως
At this point, I think true justice is actually judgement based on mercy and its application, especially to the sick soul.
Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love
In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man. In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature. In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif. Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.