Capitulo 1: La doctrina de la virtud en la teología cristiana

Abstract

In different periods of history, people have admired and promoted human qualities or excellences that they consider important for the life of individuals and for the good functioning of society. life of individuals and for the proper functioning of society. Such qualities, which may be intellectual, moral or spiritual, are embodied, for example, in heroes, heroes and heroines. incarnated, for example, in the heroes of the myths and legends of ancient peoples. ancient peoples. The stories of their exploits are used as a form of moral education and seek to moral education and seek to promote qualities such as honor, courage, fidelity and wisdom. The idea of areté or "virtue" developed by the Greek philosophers of Antiquity Greek philosophers of antiquity is a rational systematization of these excellences of thought, word and action. of thought, word and action that were already embodied in exemplary form in the heroes of the exemplary in the heroes of Homer's myths and in the tragedies of Sophocles (MacIntyre, 2015).