This reminds me of the path that Lawrence Kohlberg took in his development psychology of moral reasoning (flawed though his research was). He ended up I think saying that the person who achieved the highest stage of moral reasoning also eliminated the distance between the mind and action, actually achieved virtue both viewed from the outside and experienced inside. So I would reframe or follow up: As you get farther from Aristotle (or fill-in-the-blank) what is the relationship between the spiritual and the intellectual? And is one or the other side of that equation a better or more acceleration path, or is it just different for different people?
This reminds me of the path that Lawrence Kohlberg took in his development psychology of moral reasoning (flawed though his research was). He ended up I think saying that the person who achieved the highest stage of moral reasoning also eliminated the distance between the mind and action, actually achieved virtue both viewed from the outside and experienced inside. So I would reframe or follow up: As you get farther from Aristotle (or fill-in-the-blank) what is the relationship between the spiritual and the intellectual? And is one or the other side of that equation a better or more acceleration path, or is it just different for different people?