ar|e|te

ar|e|te «_AHR uh TAY», noun.

manly virtue; nobility of character; integrity: »

The book ends with a plea for…the cultivation of arete, which “connotes…decision and self-responsibility,” rather than hubris, “a sometimes arrogant pride in our great but limited power” (Scientific American). ... arete, a unity of mind and body to which the complete man of every age must aspire (Time).

╂[< Greek aretē]