aretaics
nounEtymology Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -ics.
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Ethics, Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; contrasted with eudaemonics.
- it is with 'aretaics' […] that anything which can be called moral philosophy begins1876, John Grote, Treatise on Moral Ideals:
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