Living according to the spirit
The Bible teach us the threefold division of man into body, soul and spirit:
"Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ", 1 Thessalonians 5:23
According to what prevails in the man this division gives rise to three types of man: the spiritual man, the rational man and the natural man. This is so because there is an intermediate state between good and evil dominated by the passions, this state corresponds to the love of the soul, the love of the friends also known as "Philia". "Agape" or spiritual love would correspond to the pneumatic man or spiritual man.
These "states" became ways of living:
"The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment", 1 Corinthians 2:14-15
The spiritual man, the blessed man, is the man who live according to the spirit, that is live the spiritual gifts received from God.
The greek philosophy correspond to the rational man, to a live according to the soul that is the practice of virtue and in particular of the justice.
The natural man according to the Bible is the man who live according to the flesh that is practice the sin. When we live the spiritual gifts we seek the eternal life as the Bible teach us, when we practice the justice and virtue we seek happiness as Aristotle says. The Blessed Life is to live the spiritual gifts, is to search the correct and the best, is the permanent search for excellence, from this, the idea of the Kingdom of God. Instead the practice of virtue is related to the psychological concept of mask, with a mediocrity without assuming risks ......