Fractured Goodness : Aristotle's Response to Plato's Form of the Good

Name: Fractured Goodness
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198915690
Price: 16200 KES
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ISBN: 9780198915690

by Christopher Shields

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0198915691

ISBN-13 9780198915690

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 4th, 2024

Print length 298 Pages

Weight 626 grams

Dimensions 24.10 x 16.50 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 Ethics & moral philosophy Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Ethics and moral philosophy

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A book about Aristotle's rejection of Plato's doctrine of the Form of the Good. It argues that, according to Aristotle, when we generalize from virtues to goodness, we wrongly form a presumption of univocity which, even if defensible in some cases, is indefensible in the general case.

Aristotle offers a searing rejection of Plato''s commitment to a Form of the Good; core among his complaints is that goodness is not univocal, that is, that there is no single essence-specifying account of goodness covering all the many varieties of goodness there are. Aristotle''s anti-Platonic arguments have been variously received: many of his readers regard them as wholly successful while many others maintain they are abject failures. This volume reconstructs and assesses these arguments afresh and asks a simple question: if they are sound, what is left for Aristotle? In particular, what principles does he have to vouchsafe the commensurability of the good things he himself regards as commensurable?

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