The Metaphysics of Consciousness, the collected papers of an RIP conference held at Edinburgh, has just been published by the CUP.
What is the Order Among the Varieties of Goodness? -- David Wiggins
Posted in Philosophy on 15/02/2010 - 12:09
In this paper, David Wiggins considers 'the variousness and plurality of goodness [which] has given comfort to general scepticism about values....' Is this variousness really just a disorganised jumble or is there some underlying unifiying principle behind it? Here, Wiggins considers a conjecture of Aristotle's (the focal hypothesis) and combines it with a suggestion of Von Wright's. This leads to the thought that the central case of something good is 'the faring well of a being'.
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