AretĒ/Agathon/Kakon Aretē , meaning "excellence" or "virtue," is central to ancient Greek ethics, from the early poets through Plato and Aristotle to the Stoics. It is a quality necessary for success, and the...

Arete (Greek: ἀρετή; pronounced /ˈærəteɪ/ in English) 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...

'I AM THE TYPE OF ARCHITECT WHO LIKES TO DO EVERYTHING BY HIMSELF' - Wiel Arets Dutch architect Wiel Arets, designer of the Academy of Arts and Architecture in Maastricht (1993) and former dean of Amsterdam's Berlage Institute, has turned to product...

Readers loved it, advertisers didn't: novel Arete folds Locally published Arete -- the slick literary magazine that failed to please advertisers -- has succumbed. The next issue, expected to hit newstands at the end of this month, will be the last,...