GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS

Action, conduct

praxis

 

Art

technē

includes crafts and skills

Capacity

dunamis

also ‘faculty’, ‘capability’

Character

hexis

see also ‘moral character’

Choice

prohairesis

 

Complication

desis

 

Depraved

mochtheros

 

Discovery

anagnorēsis

alternative translation: ‘recognition’

Emotion

pathos

 

Error

amartia

see note on p. 93

Explication

lusis

 

Happiness

eudaimonia

 

Ideas

dianoia

see Introduction, p. xxi

Knowledge

epistēmē

 

Making

poiesis

see Introduction, p. xi

Moral character

ēthos

 

Noble

kalon

also ‘beautiful’

Pain

lupe

includes all kinds of distress, e.g. thirst

Passion

pathos

 

Pleasure

hēdonē

 

Plot

systema tōn pragmatōn

 

Purification

katharsis

see Introduction, p. xxv

Reason

logos

also ‘word’

Representation

mimēsis

alternative translation ‘imitation’: see p. xv

Reversal

peripetia

alternative translation ‘overturning’

Story

muthos

alternative translation ‘plot’; but see p. xix

Suffering

pathos

 

Task

ergon

also ‘work’

Virtue

arēte

also ‘excellence’

Wicked

ponēros