Judy, I know less than anything about Kant.=20 William Ball Norma Ball=20 -----Original Message----- From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy Evans Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:19 PM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] RE: [lit-ideas] aret=EA - Greek for virtue (was: Query) WB> Also, a colleague of mine reminded me that "virtue" has to do with the WB> idea of being manly, 'vir,' as in virtu in Machiavelli? where fortune is a woman... ! I think arete would be a virtue, not virtue. But indeed (RH) one might speak of the virtue of an object lying in its use-full-ness. Arete is not gender specific and I don't know anything about Kant! --=20 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK =20 mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html