Defining Areté with specific virtues helps to clarify our purpose and gives us measurable targets to seek out.
We therefore aim to achieve greatness not just in an abstract way, but across specific dimensions. Because life is a journey, some ill-defined concept of perfection is not our goal; instead, the consistency with which we continue to accurately aim towards our values is. For this reason, we call these thirty specific aspects of a life of Areté, to be “Aims”.
The Thirty Aims of Areté are explicitly not a comprehensive list of all the ways a person or group might have Areté, but rather it is the minimum list which all Aretéans universally agree upon. As such, the Thirty Aims of Areté are the core doctrinal material The Assemblage of Areté preaches, safe in the knowledge that we all agree that these are good values worth striving for.
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