Aretology

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Aretology is that part of moral philosophy which deals with virtue, its nature, and the means of arriving at it.

It is also a genre or form of literature, a narrative showing the "virtues," i.e. powers of the main character. Examples are found in antiquity of famous heroes.

[edit] See also

• Arete
• Virtue ethics

[edit] References

• This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]

[edit] External links

• Detailed look at Aretology from the Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy