Fractured goodness

• Verfasst von: Shields, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Fractured goodness
• Titelzusatz: Aristotle's response to Plato's form of the good
• Verf.angabe: Christopher Shields
• Verlagsort: Oxford ; New York
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xxii, 275 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 261-272
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891569-0
• Schlagwörter: (p)Aristoteles / (p)Plato / (s)Das Gute
• Schlagwörter: (p)Aristoteles / (p)Plato / (s)Das Gute
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: FH 33150
• RVK-Notation: CD 2067
• K10plus-PPN: 1899122311

Abstract

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?