Article ID: CBB000933647

Aristoteles und der naturalistische Fehlschluß (2006)

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Is Aristotle's ethics founded on a naturalistic fallacy? This article examines in detail the criticism which was levelled at Aristotle by George Edward Moore in his Principia Ethica in 1903. In order to check the correctness of this assumption, Aristotle's notion of goodness is reconstructed by an analysis of his theoretical as well as his ethical writings. The picture which emerges shows that Aristotle does not understand goodness as a univocal term but as an analogical concept the focal meaning of which is closely related to the perfection of the different natural things or species. Since Moore's criticism presupposes a univocal definition of goodness, Aristotle's treatment of this notion does not fall prey to it. Although his understanding of goodness is connected with his teleology of nature, Aristotle is not guilty of deriving ought from is; therefore, his ethics is also immune to the second argument against the naturalistic fallacy which is usually traced back to David Hume.

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Description Examines George Edward Moore's criticism of Aristotle in his 1903 work.


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Authors & Contributors
Martins, Roberto de Andrade
Leunissen, Mariska
Santiago Chame
Aparna Ravilochan
Wilson, Malcolm
Vaccarezza, Maria Silvia
Concepts
Philosophy
Teleology
Nature
Ethics
Physics
Biology
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
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