[lit-ideas] Re: Town & Country
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:42:11 EDT
In a message dated 6/20/2009 7:02:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
Quite right, JL. The "deontic" conception of morality differs
significantly from
the "aretaic." I'm not clear on the sources of these terms, perhaps you can
enlighten us?
----
O come on, you _have_ to know!, and you do.
The deon, is a modal Greek, 'ought'. So that's easy enough.
The arete is related to aristos, which is superlative for 'good'. I always
meant to ask Geary if he would say, as I would, gooder and goodest.
The arete is supposed to be the goodest. The Latin translation 'virtus'
confuses things.
I prefer 'teleological' vs. 'deontological' -- and even 'virtue ethics' or
'ethics of flourishing' for aretaic, but I see if I can find anything else
about the sources.
Deont-ology poses a problem in that, unlike, aretaic, involves 'logos' or
reason. The 'logos' of the 'deon'. It's like a ethica more geometrico,
which is idiotic (moralia more geometrico) seeing that 'more' is ablative for
'mos', ethos.
Etc.
Cheers,
JL Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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