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about the world of Homer from the side of,
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you might say,the life of the mind
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rather than the practical matters of society
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by talking about values and ethics in the world of Homer.
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I also spoke to you about the heroic ethic,
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which is the dominant element in this system of theirs.
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Another way of looking at it is that it is an aristocratic
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way of thinking and feeling.
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At the core of it, is the concept of arete.
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Now, that's a word that causes us some problems because
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it comes to mean
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even in antiquity something quite different,