Aristotle's Argument Against Plato's Form of the Good - with Michele Pecorari

In this episode, I speak with Michele Pecorari about one of Aristotle’s arguments against Plato’s Form of the Good in Nicomachean Ethics 1.6. Aristotle notes that we call many different kinds of things good: God is good, as a substance; virtue is good, as a quality; the right amount is good, as a quantity; and the right time is good, as a time. We discuss why Aristotle thinks this creates a problem for Plato’s idea of a single Form of the Good.The article discussed is Michele Pecorari’s “Goodness and Non-Univocity in Nicomachean Ethics 1.6,” published in Phronesis 71.1, pp. 25–51. The article is available here: https://brill.com/view/journals/phro/71/1/article-p25_2.xml