Fractured Goodness

Aristotle's Response to Plato's Form of the Good

Christopher Shields author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:4th Jul '24

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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?

In this excellent book, which is both exhilarating to read and quite evidently written with heartfelt devotion to the intertwined thoughts of the greatest of the ancient philosophers. * Lloyd P. Gerson, Ancient Philosophy *

ISBN: 9780198915690

Dimensions: 240mm x 160mm x 24mm

Weight: 618g

304 pages