Shakespeare and the Aristotelian Ethical TraditionStanford University, 1956 - 666 pages |
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Page 14
... ideal of areté.14 Within a limited and democratic government , leadership more easily belonged to those who had the highest areté . The ideal itself had varied with the development of the Greek city - states , until areté became ...
... ideal of areté.14 Within a limited and democratic government , leadership more easily belonged to those who had the highest areté . The ideal itself had varied with the development of the Greek city - states , until areté became ...
Page 15
... ideal citizen ; areté belonged to the man who contributed most to the common good . In order to be just , in the concrete sense which justice now has in Greek political thought .e . , the fifth century B. C.7 ( that is , in order to ...
... ideal citizen ; areté belonged to the man who contributed most to the common good . In order to be just , in the concrete sense which justice now has in Greek political thought .e . , the fifth century B. C.7 ( that is , in order to ...
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... ideal in favor of one which works through the natural more entirely . I can understand Mr. Harbage's preference for the latter ideal , but when he presents such illustrations to support his theory as the excerpt he quotes from Greene's ...
... ideal in favor of one which works through the natural more entirely . I can understand Mr. Harbage's preference for the latter ideal , but when he presents such illustrations to support his theory as the excerpt he quotes from Greene's ...
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