Aretē: Excellence or Virtue Library
Want to know what the Ancient Greeks thought and said about aretē?
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— Aretē: Excellence or Virtue Contents —
1. Introduction 2. Determining the Goal—Aretē as the Telos of Life 3. The Aretē Spectrum—from Inanimate to Divine Aretē 4. The Nature of Aretē—General & Specific Notions of Aretē 5. Aretē as the Means by Which—Competitive, Cooperative & Deifying Excellence 6. The How of Aretē—Inheritance, the Gods, Teaching & Hard Work 7. Models of Aretē—Excellent Men & Women 8. Plato & Socrates 9. Xenophon & Socrates 10. Aristotle 11. The Cynics—Antisthenes, Diogenes, Crates & Other Cynics 12. Zeno of Citium & the Early Stoics 13. Epictetus the Stoic 14. Epicurus 15. Plotinus 16. Lucian of Samosata 17. Isocrates 18. Demosthenes 19. Dio Chrysostom 20. Julian the Emperor 21. Conclusion
