aretaics

Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) +‎ -ics.

aretaics (uncountable)

1. (ethics) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; contrasted with eudaemonics.
   • 1876, John Grote, Treatise on Moral Ideals:

     it is with 'aretaics' […] that anything which can be called moral philosophy begins

• aretaic

• “aretaics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ascarite