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

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?

Author: Christopher Shields
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 09/20/2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.4lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780198915690