MAKARIOS vs EULOGEW of God
Edgar Foster
questioning1 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 12 11:12:38 EDT 1998
---"Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
>(2) One problem with "happy" for MAKARIOS is that it ultimately
reverts etymologically to a notion of chance. Aristotle spends
considerable effort in Book 1 of the Ethics in drawing a distinction
between
EUDAIMWN--"blessed" in the sense of being fulfilled with the goodness
that deity can bestow--and EUTUCHS--"fortunate" in the sense of
enjoying various sorts of fulfilment for no particular reason other
than that one is "lucky<
I have a few questions, Carl. How would you distinguish EUDAIMWN from
MAKARIOS, or would you make a sharp distinction between the two signs?
Does not Aristotle differentiate EUDAIMWN from MAKARIOS in Nicomachean
Ethics 1101a1-20? If the objection to rendering MAKARIOS as "happy" is
for etymological reasons, is this a valid objection? Based on Ps. 1:1
(LXX), could not MAKARIOS ANER be understood as one who is happy,
because he or she is blessed by the Deity?
Efdgar Foster
Lenoir-Rhyne College
_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list