Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Ideas

    Excellence

    idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    excellence · aretê · valor · good men and true · virtue

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Aretê“excellence”2 mentions

    Iliad (Greek) · Odyssey (Greek)

    Be mindful of all your excellence [ aretê];
    chapter 22

    in the texts

    IliadClassical · Greek

    The concept of manly excellence or valor, explicitly named (aretê) by Achilles before the duel.

    Be mindful of all your excellence [ aretê];
    chapter 22

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    Excellence or virtue, applied to Penelope's understanding and fidelity, and to the valor of Telemakhos and Laertes.

    My son and grandson are vying with one another in the matter of valor [ aretê].
    chapter 24
    "Happy Odysseus, son of Laertes," replied the ghost [ psukhê] of Agamemnon, "you are indeed blessed [ olbios] in the possession of a wife endowed with such rare excellence [ aretê] of understanding, and so faithful to her wedded lord as Penelope the daughter of Ikarios.
    chapter 24

    PanathenaicusClassical · Greek

    True civic and personal virtue, opposed to mere technical skill or successful violence and associated with justice, wisdom, and reverence.

    And yet what is there in such conduct that is good or admirable and not, on the contrary, shameful?
    panathenaicus
    But men who pretend to excellence must not imitate their example but much rather the power of wisdom and of justice and of the other virtues.
    panathenaicus
    I speak, not of excellence as that word is used in the arts or in many other activities, but of the excellence which in the hearts of good men and true is engendered in company with righteousness and justice.
    panathenaicus