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aretaics en · NOUN

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -ics.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; contrasted with eudaemonics.
    • it is with 'aretaics' […] that anything which can be called moral philosophy begins 1876, John Grote, Treatise on Moral Ideals:

Relateds

aretaic

Translations (3)

pl aretaika (theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness) · pt aretologia (theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness) · fi aretologia (theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness)