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Monism and Pluralism about Value
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Heathwood, Chris |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | At the start of Plato's Philebus, Socrates sums up the two views that he and Protarchus will be discussing: Philebus says that the good for all animate beings consists in enjoyment, pleasure, delight, and whatever can be classed as consonant therewith, whereas our contention is that the good is not that, but . thought, intelligence, memory, and things akin to these, right opinion and true reasoning . . (Plato, Philebus, 11b) Philebus holds, in a word, that “pleasure is the good,” Socrates that “knowledge is the good.”1 On each of these views, there is just one kind of good. Each is thus a form of monism about the good. A more ecumenical approach would allow |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199959303.013.0009 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/MPV.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb%2F9780199959303.013.0009 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
