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s Natural: – Courage – Temperance (selfcontrol, moderation) – Practical wisdom (prudence) – Justice Supernatural: – Faith – Hope – Love (charity) Nietzsche’s Attitude ? Nietzsche says nothing against the natural virtues. In fact, he repeatedly affirms them. – Example: N.39。 natural wisdom Evidences of teleology 1. Contrast between health and sickness, advancing life and decadence. – Applied to our mental, spiritual life, as well as to ordinary physiology. – Compare Plato39。 Love ? An Evaluation of Nietzsche’s Critique Nietzsche, Plato and Aristotle Teleology in Nietzsche ? Nietzsche, like Plato and Aristotle, has a teleological conception of human nature. ? The final cause, natural end = a plete life, lived according to instinct amp。s character, one39。 Charity ? Faith = unreason, dogmatism ? Hope = otherworldiness, denial of senses, body ? Love = equality, pity, rejection of distinction, hierarchy amp。s ideal prince. Evaluation of Nietzsche39。 Inequality ? Mainstream Christian theology seeks to maintain both an ultimate equality and a provisional, thisworldly inequality. ? All humans are of equal (infinite) value, but we have unequal functions and status in this world. Slavery amp。s position: discerning what to do requires the virtue of prudence or practical wisdom. ? Practical wisdom cannot be reduced to a set of instructions. It requires the exercising of sound judgment. Sartre’s Thin Conception ? What Sartre is clearly rejecting is this thick conception of human nature. ? Thin conception of human nature: we have a human nature, and it does provide a basis for value, but it also suffers from considerable indeterminacy. Implications of the Thin Conception ? There are many questions of value and of decision for which human nature provides no answer. ? We can partially define ourselves: fill in the blank slots in our nature through our own decisions. ? Human nature itself gives us the capacity and the responsibility of doing so. The Young Man and the Resistance ? Sartre is claiming that all the ethical insight and practical wisdom in the world does not suffice to justify a unique solution to the young m