Fractured goodness : Aristotle's response to Plato's Form of the Good / Christopher Shields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shields, Christopher John, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Plato.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 1, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-891572-1

OCLC:

1432241196