[lit-ideas] RE: [lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] RE: [lit-ideas] aretê - Greek for virtue (was: Query)
- From: "William Ball" <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 19:17:15 -0400
Judy,
I know less than anything about Kant.=20
William Ball
Norma Ball=20
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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!
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Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK =20
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