To offer some fairness to myself regarding the bad grammar... In earlier revisions of the question, I found that a lot of words I wanted to use carried too much weight and baggage. I didn't want to bias the question with them. So I went with the most generic and childish language that could capture the essence.

Words like evil, excellence, error, virtue; They all mean very specific things to different people. Rephrased with more mature verbiage, it's still an interesting question but doesn't seem as broad. What is excellence? Is it driven more by the presence of things that are excellent or the general absence of error? If the first, what does it mean for those things to be excellent?

That is an interesting and nearly identical question. One downside of this question is that not everyone is caught up in trying to be excellent. Many people don't care what is "excellent." But everyone cares what is good and what isn't so good. But maybe that simplified speech is beneath some people.

What is virtue? Is it the absence of evil? These all end up asking a slightly different question, instead of the broadest question.