In what way does Aristotle say the homonymy of good?

• Grant number: 06/05118-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2007
• End date: September 30, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Marco Antônio de Ávila Zingano
• Grantee: Hugo Bezerra Tiburtino
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

We will try to understand a passage in th Nicomachean Ethics (I, 6), where Aristotle considers the word "goodness" a homonymy. In what sense we use the word "good"? Indeed, it can be said about many things, all very different (for example: good boy, good life, good house etc.). Although the differences, these cases seems to have something in commun. To undestand how Aristotle posits and solves that question, is necessary to study several theorys of his thought, like homonymy, analogy and final cause, as well as the critic to the platonism, once is during the critical of the goodness on Plato that begin such question. By rigorous lecture, not concluding nothing that do not have endorsment in the texts, we will study that passage looking at others treatises, mainly Ethica Eudemia, Physica and the Categoriae.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

TIBURTINO, Hugo Bezerra. The problem of the good in general to Aristotle. 2010. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.