Abstract
In Nicomachean Ethics, III, 4, 1113a 15, Aristotle presents a problem that consists in knowing if the object of human desire is the good (tagathón) or the apparent good (tó phainómenon agathón). Aristotle's solution, according to Aubenque, would make the moral norm coincide with the valorous man, viz., the spoudaios. Now, from the notion of apparent good and from this aristotelian concept…