Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Maybe #13 could be Isonomia (equality before the law) could make it a baker’s dozen...
I WILL REFER YOU TO THE DELPHIC ORDERS!
Eunoia: goodwill between a speaker and their audience, or between spouses, or the shortest English words containing all the vowels.
These words all exist in modern Greek where they are used fairly regularly--and with these same meanings, too.
And maybe add krisi to this list — good judgment, including critical thought needed to process all the other terms.
Thank you for reminding us.
I mostly just new about Arete and Eudaimonia, very nice content!
“Paideia” is a rather critical notion, which pervades the Platonic corpus as Werner Jaeger long ago instructed. It can be translated, rather inadequately, as the education required in order to be able to live a developed life.
Thanks for the invaluable refresher course. Charles L
Thank you for this illuminating article!
Love eudaimonia. Flourishing is a great way to think of it, in my view.
Here's a note I wrote to help folks understand the contrast between eudaimonia and another Greek word, hedonia.
https://substack.com/@dirkbellamy/note/c-220705362?r=7pqyd0&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
To me, the connotation of eudaimonia is "the smooth running of the (civilizational) machine".
Great list for those of us beginning this Stoic journey. Thank you.
Maybe #13 could be Isonomia (equality before the law) could make it a baker’s dozen...
I WILL REFER YOU TO THE DELPHIC ORDERS!
Eunoia: goodwill between a speaker and their audience, or between spouses, or the shortest English words containing all the vowels.
These words all exist in modern Greek where they are used fairly regularly--and with these same meanings, too.
And maybe add krisi to this list — good judgment, including critical thought needed to process all the other terms.
Thank you for reminding us.
I mostly just new about Arete and Eudaimonia, very nice content!
“Paideia” is a rather critical notion, which pervades the Platonic corpus as Werner Jaeger long ago instructed. It can be translated, rather inadequately, as the education required in order to be able to live a developed life.
Thanks for the invaluable refresher course. Charles L
Thank you for this illuminating article!
Love eudaimonia. Flourishing is a great way to think of it, in my view.
Here's a note I wrote to help folks understand the contrast between eudaimonia and another Greek word, hedonia.
https://substack.com/@dirkbellamy/note/c-220705362?r=7pqyd0&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
To me, the connotation of eudaimonia is "the smooth running of the (civilizational) machine".
Great list for those of us beginning this Stoic journey. Thank you.