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
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 298 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0198915691
• | ISBN-13: 9780198915690