[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] RE: [lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] RE: [lit-ideas] aretê - Greek for virtue (was: Query)
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:23:40 +0100
Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 12:17:15 AM, William Ball wrote:
WB> Judy,
WB> I know less than anything about Kant.=20
Thank goodness!
Judy
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WB> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] RE: [lit-ideas] aret=EA - Greek for
WB> virtue (was: Query)
WB>> Also, a colleague of mine reminded me that "virtue" has to do with
WB> the
WB>> idea of being manly, 'vir,'
WB> as in virtu in Machiavelli? where fortune is a woman... !
WB> I think arete would be a virtue, not virtue. But indeed (RH) one
WB> might speak of the virtue of an object lying in its use-full-ness.
WB> Arete is not gender specific
WB> and
WB> I don't know anything about Kant!
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Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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