Fractured Goodness : Aristotle's Response to Plato's Form of the Good
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198915691
ISBN-13
9780198915690
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 4th, 2024
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
626 grams
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24.10 x 16.50 x 2.40 cms
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Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500Ethics & 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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