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

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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-Plat...

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Main Author: Shields, Christopher John (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Aristotle.
Plato.
Good and evil.
History & Surveys.
PHILOSOPHY.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Fractured Goodness : Aristotle's Response to Plato's Form of the Good
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1: A View of a View of the Good
  • 1.1 A View of the Good
  • 1.1.1 The Form of the Good Is a Form
  • 1.1.2 The Form of the Good Admits of a Univocal Definition
  • 1.1.3 Goodness Is Something Common
  • 1.1.4 The Form of the Good Is Universal
  • 1.1.5 The Form of the Good Is a Paradigm
  • 1.1.6 The Form of the Good Is Separate
  • 1.1.7 Aristotle's Target
  • 1.2 Preliminary Distinctions and Initial Questions
  • 1.3 The Axiological Character of Aristotle's Complaint
  • 1.4 A View of a View of the Good: Aristotle's Reaction
  • 1.4.1 Preliminary Introduction
  • 1.4.2 No Forms over the Prior and Posterior
  • 1.4.3 Goods across the Categories
  • 1.4.4 The Diversity of the Sciences
  • 1.4.5 Adding 'Itself'
  • 1.4.6 Relative Praise for the Pythagoreans and Speusippus
  • 1.4.7 A Platonic Rejoinder Considered and Rejected
  • 1.4.8 A Conciliatory Concern
  • 1.4.9 Normative Considerations Reintroduced
  • 1.5 The Arguments of Nicomachean Ethics i 6
  • 1.5.1 A Series of Goods (ASG) (EN i 6, 1096a17-23)
  • 1.5.2 Goods Across the Categories (GAC) (EN i 6, 1096a23-29)
  • 1.5.3 The Diversity of the Sciences (DS) (EN i 6, 1096a29-34)
  • 1.5.4 Adding 'Itself' (AI) (EN i 6, 1096a34-1096b5)
  • 1.5.5 An Argument from the Plurality of Intrinsic Goods (IG) (EN i 6, 1096b8-26)
  • 1.5.6 The Pointlessness of the Form of the Good (PFG) (EN i 6, 1096b35-1097a13)
  • 1.6 Concluding Considerations
  • 2: Two Views of a View of a View of the Good
  • 2.1 Two Classes?
  • 2.2 Seven Questions about Aristotle's Criticisms of the Form of the Good
  • 2.3 The Reception of Nicomachean Ethics i 6
  • 2.3.1 A Committed Byzantine Platonist: Eustratius
  • 2.3.2 A Committed Medieval Aristotelian: Thomas Aquinas
  • 2.3.3 The Debate Continues
  • 2.4 Concluding Considerations
  • 3: A Series of Goods
  • 3.1 Goods, in Order
  • 3.2 A Complicated Simple Argument
  • 3.3 Series: Before and After
  • 3.4 Conjectural Expansions
  • 3.5 Concluding Considerations
  • 4: Goodness across the Categories
  • 4.1 The Arguments: One Dominant and One Ancillary
  • 4.2 Goodness across the Categories: Predicational Approaches
  • 4.3 Goodness across the Categories: Non-predicational Approaches
  • 4.4 Geach's Gambit
  • 4.5 Goodness and Being: The Covariance Contention
  • 4.6 Concluding Considerations
  • 5: The Diversity of Sciences
  • 5.1 An Axiological Dimension
  • 5.2 The Requisites of Science
  • 5.3 A Taxonomical Cul-de-Sac
  • 5.4 Intra-categorial Non-univocity
  • 5.5 Fractured Goodness Fractured
  • 5.6 Concluding Considerations
  • 6: Adding 'Itself'
  • 6.1 A Simple Transformation?
  • 6.2 An Intrinsicality Filter
  • 6.3 Intrinsicality Filtering and Platonic Paradeigmatism
  • 6.4 A Rejoinder from Eustratius
  • 6.5 Concluding Considerations
  • 7: Intrinsic Goods Alone: A Platonic Rejoinder