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virtue (because he is in touch with no images) but to true virtue [‘arete’] (because he is in touch with true beauty).’ (‘Arete’ is also translated as ‘excellence’ and was of key importance to Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance). Pirsig argued that arete as excellence pre-dates Platonic and Aristotelian thought and equates with quality, as the guiding principle of reality, prior to virtue and prior to our splits of subject and object.)
To be enchanted — to truly know our own pleasures and to be enchanted by the world — this is the path to joy. So joy is the subject of our final section.
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