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Aretology
Aretology is that part of moral philosophy which deals with virtue, its nature, and the means of arriving at it.
It is also a genre or form of literature, a narrative showing the "virtues," i.e. powers of the main character. Examples are found in antiquity of famous heroes.
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- Detailed look at Aretology from the Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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