Full Idea
If the intellect is divine compared with man, the life of the intellect must be divine compared with the life of a human being.
Gist of Idea
The intellectual life is divine in comparison with ordinary human life
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1177b31)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.330
A Reaction
This raises an interesting question: what, for Aristotle, was the value of a human life? This raises a meta-question for virtue theory, because the latter only concerns itself with excellence for humans? What is the value of a slug?