Excellence Notes Continued

Today I learned that you can't do your blog over the weekend so right now I have a C. I know it will go up, but its very nerve wrecking seeing my grade that low. We also found out that we have a test on Friday! In class we took notes on the rest of the power point, so here it is:

Vocab

• Perihelion - point when a planet is closest to the sun, therefore at its brightest
• Slipshod - careless, lackadaisical
• Imbecility - incapability, stupidity
• Stenographer - person who takes dictation in shorthand (like a secretary/ writes fast)

"What is Initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told"

Arete

• excellence of any kind
• moral virtue
• fulfillment of purpose or function
• but mostly...
• The act of living up to one's full potential

More about it

• arete involves all of the abilities and potentialities available to humans
• the highest human potential is knowledge - all other human abilities are derived from this
• if arete is knowledge and study, then  the highest human knowledge is knowledge about knowledge itself