It is often translated as “virtue” in English, but that term has too many 19th century connotations.

eeks ca…mportantly about what our resident philosopher (Christopher Long) told us the ancient Greeks called arete, or excellence in practice. What are the values that would enrich and improve humanities scholarship? (The idea being that lat…
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Oct 10, 2016
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It is often translated as “virtue” in English, but that term has too many 19th century connotations. “Excellence” is a better translation, IMHO.
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MSU Foundation Professor, Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and of the MSU Honors College; Co-Founder of @PubPhilJ; Co-PI of @HuMetricsHSS.
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