[lit-ideas] Aretaics -- Who Needs It?
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aretaics:
[f. Gr. virtue; cf. spondaic.]
1865 J. GROTE Moral Ideas i. (1876) 1 [In] Moral Philosophy there are two
sciences..the science of virtue, Aretaics..the science of happiness,
Eudæmonics.
1623 COCKERAM Aretalogon [sic], a vaunter of his owne vertues. 1656 BLOUNT
Glossogr., Aretaloger, one that braggs or boasts of vertue in himself, a
talking fellow, a lyer.
1887 W. CORY Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 525 The aretalogical succession is that
traced back to the Scipio and Regulus of Cicero, Livy, and Horace. 1912 J.
S. PHILLIMORE tr. Philostr. Apollon. I. p. xiii, A life, or rather an
edifying Aretalogy, of Pythagoras. 1925 W. R. HALLIDAY Pagan Background vi.
185
The aretalogy, which narrates the miraculous acts of some thaumaturge.
aretology: ‘That part of moral philosophy that treats of virtue.’ Bailey
1731.
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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