This Sculpture Could Symbolize “The Greatest And The Best”

…[[In 2 pages, the ZMM Narrator explains how Phaedrus began to search for how and why the Early Greek Philosophers would want to eliminate virtue. We are told of Phaedrus’s discovery of very poignant passages in a small book called “The Greeks” by H. D. F. Kitto. Here is a portion of what the Narrators said => ]
…“"What moves the Greek warrior to deeds of heroism," Kitto comments, "is not a sense of duty as we understand it—duty towards others: it is rather duty towards himself. He strives after that which we translate ‘virtue’ but is in Greek areté, ‘excellence’—we shall have much to say about areté. It runs through Greek life." … There, Phædrus thinks, is a definition of Quality that had existed a thousand years before the dialecticians ever thought to put it to word-traps. Anyone who cannot understand this meaning without logical definiens and definendum and differentia is either lying or so out of touch with the common lot of humanity as to be unworthy of receiving any reply whatsoever. Phædrus is fascinated too by the description of the motive of "duty toward self " which is an almost exact translation of the Sanskrit word dharma, sometimes described as the "one" of the Hindus. ” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Plaza in front of University Hospital, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

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(Photo = 101-0145 ...... ZMM Page = 340 ..... WayPt = -034 0590 ft)