1 Arete, or Human Excellence

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Keyword(s):  
Human Excellence

The Measure of Greatness

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Nature ◽  
Complex Trajectory ◽  
The Many ◽  
Human Excellence ◽  
Ethical Perspectives

Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as the philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle’s account of human excellence and was accorded an equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. One of the most distinctive elements of the ancient tradition to filter into the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds, it sparked important intellectual engagements there and went on to carve deep tracks through several later philosophies that inherited from this tradition. Under changing names, under reworked forms, it continued to breathe in the thought of Descartes and Hume, Kant and Nietzsche, and their successors. Its many lives have been joined by important continuities. Yet they have also been fragmented by discontinuities—discontinuities reflecting larger shifts in ethical perspectives and competing answers to questions about the nature of the good life, the moral nature of human beings, and their relationship to the social and natural world they inhabit. They have also been punctuated by moments of controversy in which the greatness of this vision of human greatness has itself been called into doubt. This volume provides a window to the complex trajectory of a virtue whose glitter has at times been as heady as it has been divisive. By exploring the many lives it has lived, we will be in a better position to decide whether and why this is a virtue we might still want to make central to our own ethical lives.

Reflections on the Categorization of Human Excellence

1971 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joav Gozali ◽  
Jack Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Human Excellence

Vivekananda’s message of human excellence

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
Swami Purnatmananda
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vertical Growth ◽  
Horizontal Growth ◽  
Human Material ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Human Excellence

Purpose – This paper aims to explore Vivekananda’s message of human excellence. The central message of Vivekananda is: Man is not just man. Man is potentially divine. The goal of life is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. This message deserves to be spread across all human beings. Design/methodology/approach – All individuals could try to improve the quality of their human material and thus gradually proceed towards the state of perfect human excellence by combining in them both the horizontal growth and the vertical growth. Findings – It is possible to enrich the quality of our life to such an extent where the difference between man and God melts away. Originality/value – The highest and finest human excellence is thus evolving a God out of the material man. It is the state when I know I am one with all. This is what Vivekananda wanted to impress upon mankind.

Asthma and Human Excellence

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantine J. Falliers
Keyword(s):  
Human Excellence

A Classification of Sport and Physical Activity Services: Implications for Sport Management

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Chelladurai
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Human Excellence

A classification of sport and physical activity services based on two dimensions is presented. The first dimension is the type and extent of employee involvement in the production of services—consumer, professional, and human services. The second dimension is the four sets of client motives for participation in sport and physical activity—pursuit of pleasure, skill, excellence, and health/fitness. A combination of these two dimensions yields six classes of sport and physical activity services: consumer pleasure, consumer health/fitness, human skills, human excellence, human sustenance, and human curative. The managerial implications emerging from the proposed model are outlined with reference to programming, organizing, staffing, and leading in organizations delivering sport and physical activity services.

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