Arête and Comprehension

[Anonymous No.9336949]

Does anyone here when they see the word "arête" think of a scale of excellence, the more arête one has the higher on the scale?

Am I going about this wrong? I already know Arête is one of the harder words for the English read to understand.

What's a good way to comprehend it and apply it to the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.9337561]

Arête could be translated to pinnacle.


t. francophone

[Anonymous No.9338282]

>>9336949
I do a lot of climbing and Arete always refered to a feature of the rock that is essentially a vertical ridge, i.e. one of the exterior corners of a building would be an arete. Doesn't it just mean ridge in French?

[Anonymous No.9338519]

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20162854?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

[Anonymous No.9340026]

>>9337561
>>9338282
He's talking about the Greek word you dumb frogs.

>>9336949
A good way to understand the term is to read it as the italian "virtu" found in the works of Machiavelli. Arête is the apex of a man's existence, the fulfillment of his possibilities and their translation into great deeds.

[Anonymous No.9341863]

>>9336949
Strangely inspirational meme you've got there...

[Anonymous No.9341894]

>>9340026
Jack donovan writes that Virtu meant Manliness in The Way Of Men. Arête I believe means the same thing as Kaizen, meaning excellence in the form of continuous habitual improvement.

[Anonymous No.9341898]

>>9336949
Regarding that comic, I don't think it's possible for me to hate anyone more than I hate people who confuse the scientific revolution with the enlightenment.

[Anonymous No.9341999]

>>9336949
I'm Spanish and I've always seen arete translated as virtue or excellence

[Anonymous No.9342285]

>>9336949
tfw all you want in life is a /lit/ gang to pursue excellence in all things with and attempt to destroy all things through the written word

[Anonymous No.9342293]

>>9341894
>Jack donovan writes that Virtu meant Manliness in The Way Of Men
but that's wrong

[Anonymous No.9342546]

>>9341894
Everything connected to the contemporary digital Right is based on a misinterpretation of a misinterpretation of a mistranslation of something someone smarter than Nick Land said.