Plato and Aristotle on the Good

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Plato and Aristotle on the Good
Ans.1. In the passage, Plato affirms that there is a lot of confusion about the meaning of ‘good’ because most people think that every pleasurable and prudent thing is good (Plato 56). Plato asserts that this definition is vague because the same people who define well as such also agree that some pleasurable things are bad. This in turn begs the question, ‘so the good is also bad?’ (Plato 16). From the passage, we learn that the form of good is the centerpiece of Plato’s ethics, metaphysics of the middle period, and epistemology (Plato 56). Form of good makes everything else in life useful, and beneficial, without this knowledge, every other knowledge would not benefit us and if we knew everything else but the form of good, then we would never know what is beautiful and good (Plato 34)
Ans.2. according to the passage, it is critical that people have knowledge of this form of good in order to live a happy life because without this knowledge, we cannot know that everything else is good, and all other knowledge would not benefit us. Plato centralizes the form of good as the cause of all truth and knowledge (Aristotle 24). Further, form of good builds the foundation of every aspect of life, including mathematics, and without this knowledge, everything would be built on a weak foundation.
Ans.3. when Aristotle says that good is spoken of in many ways as being, he means that the term is ambiguous (Aristotle 56).

For instance, he explains that being is not homonymous, rather, the various senses of the word bring out its ambiguity, and the same applies to good (Plato 27). I believe his argument that the various senses of each word are all related to a central sense
Ans.4. Aristotle makes another argument about the form of the good where he affirms that if there is a set of things with the same name, then there must be a name for that set. By name, he meant any term that can be used to refer to different things in similar manner. I believe that Aristotle was right to make this conclusion (Aristotle 56). For instance, if something is beautiful, nothing else would make it beautiful except beauty itself (Plato 45). This is to mean that beauty is what makes all things beautiful. In this case, beauty is the name for a set of beautiful things.
Works cited
Aristotle, . The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Lanham: Dancing Unicorn Books, 2016. Internet resource..
Plato, , and Simon Blackburn. The Republic. Kesington: Clydesdale Press, 2018. Internet resource.