Definitions
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- adjective of or pertaining to
virtue or excellence.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretē, "virtue or excellence")
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Examples
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A difficulty with an aretaic approach to the reasonable person standard is that this standard seems too demanding.
Legal Theory Blog 2010
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In other words, deontology falls within the domain of moral theories that guide and assess our choices of what we ought to do (deontic theories), in contrast to (aretaic [virtue] theories) that ” fundamentally, at least ” guide and assess what kind of person (in terms of character traits) we are and should be.
Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007
shevek commented on the word aretaic
adj. Related to the concept of virtue.
July 17, 2008