Complex sentence: This division of virtue as a whole into cardinal virtues is today classified as virtue ethics, as described by Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", and implies a link between "virtus" and the Greek concept of "arete".
Split into simpler sentences: This division of virtue as a whole into cardinal virtues is today classified as virtue ethics, as described by Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics". It implies a link between "virtus" and the Greek concept of "arete".