Thursday, August 9, 2007

Some Useful Terms to Know #2

Doxa - meaning common belief or popular opinion (such as orthodoxy heterodoxy).

Aletheia - meaning truth, and implies sincerity, actuality, and reality.

Arete - in its basic sense means "goodness", 'excellence"or "virtue" of any kind. In its earliest appearance in Greek this notion of excellence was bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function; the act of living up to one's full potential.

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