Notes on Excellence Part 2

• imbecility: stupidity, incapability
• stenographer: a person who takes dictation in shorthand, every single word
• missive: a letter, along or official one
• Areté, an ancient Greek word for excellence, the act of living to one's full potential
• Areté is all abilities and potentialities available to humans
• the highest hum potential is knowledge, all other human abilities are derived from us
• democracy and excellence build off each other
• agora: gathering place, assembly
• polis: political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens, big cities
• 508 BC was the birth of democracy
• Socrates: he fought in the Peloponnesian war, was a war hero, was a teacher, he asked a series of questions to determine their belifs and their knowledge, this led to the scientific theory