ETHICS AND TRUTH: A Historical Assessment of the True Good in Light of Medieval Philosophy
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True, Good, Relativism, Utilitarianism, Existentialism, Nietzsche, Kant, Henry of Ghent, Thomas Aquinas, medieval, ancientRésumé
Across the history of ethics, various currents of thought lack an understanding of the true good considered as fundamentally desirable and universally sound. Among perspectives that might acknowledge the existence of the true good as so defined, medieval philosophy, exemplified by Henry of Ghent (d. 1293), provides a distinctively adequate and far-reaching conception of the true good, based on the faculties of intellect and will. The paper elaborates the character and strength of this conception against a diverse historical background.
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