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1. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” 2. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” 3. “Excellence is never an accident.
Arete (Ancient Greek: ἀρετή, romanized: aretḗ) is a concept in ancient Greek thought that refers to "excellence" of any kind [1] —especially a person or thing's "full realization of potential or inherent function." [2] The term may also refer to excellence in "moral virtue." [1]
The Aristotle scholar W. D. Ross suggested that in this conception magnificence turns out to be mainly a matter of aesthetic good taste. [9] The aesthetic role that magnificence acquired with Aristotle exerted a profound influence on rhetoric, the arts, architecture, and art criticism.
Aristotle emphasized the practical importance of developing excellence of character (Greek ēthikē aretē), as the way to achieve what is finally more important, excellent conduct (Greek praxis). As Aristotle argues in Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics , the man who possesses character excellence will tend to do the right thing, at the right ...
Pericles' Funeral Oration from Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.43.3 Julius Caesar paused on the banks of the Rubicon. Ἀνεῤῥίφθω κύβος. Anerrhíphthō kúbos. Alea iacta est. Latin: "The die has been cast"; Greek: "Let the die be cast." Julius Caesar as reported by Plutarch, when he entered Italy with his army in ...
Aristotle analyzed the golden mean in the Nicomachean Ethics Book II: That virtues of character can be described as means. It was subsequently emphasized in Aristotelian virtue ethics. [1] For example, in the Aristotelian view, courage is a virtue, but if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness, and, in deficiency, cowardice. The middle ...
There is thematic discussion of kalokagathia in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, [5] Book VIII, chapter 3 (1248b). And how a kalos kagathos (gentleman) should live is also discussed at length in Xenophon's Socratic dialogues, especially the Oeconomicus. In Aristotle, the term becomes important as a technical term used in discussions about Ethics. [5]
Aristotle and other classical philosophers propounded the principle of the golden mean which counsels against extremism in general. [4] Its sense in English literature can be traced back to Shakespeare. [5] In his tragedy King Lear (1606), the Duke of Albany warns of "striving to better, oft we mar what's well" and in Sonnet 103: