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It is better than a hand Over and over was this slow process repeated up and up that arete--the little serrated blocks they had seen from below proving mighty masses worn by frost and sunshine till in places they were quite sharp.

—The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps

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a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains

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Sunday, August 31, 2008 arete, a concept that although notoriously hard to define still has tremendous resonance with our intuition. — The Barefoot Bum
Arete must be described by appeal to numerous examples, and Rand devotes a considerable portion of the million or so words in both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead to providing examples of her notion of arete. — The Barefoot Bum
We can easily empathize not only with the drive to arete, but with the specific expressions that drive takes in her main characters. — The Barefoot Bum
Rand further qualifies self-actualization in that the pursuit of one's self-actualization of arete should not improperly interfere with another's. — The Barefoot Bum
It is debatable whether this non-interference is normative or analytic (i.e. any self-actualization that improperly interferes with another's is by definition not arete), but this distinction is relatively unimportant. — The Barefoot Bum