[lit-ideas] Query

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 03:54:59 EDT

Someone please help the swiss cheese that my brain has become.  In  ancient 
greece thtere was a word that meant roughly "virtue" which actually  meant that 
something functioned according to its intended purpose -- an arrow  which 
flew from a bow and shot something was behaving "virtuously", while a  pitcher 
which was intended to pour water, if it struck the same animal and klled  it, 
was not.  Someone please help?
 
Julie Krueger

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