Fractured Goodness

Christopher Shields is Distinguished University Professor and Henry E. Allison Chair at the University of California San Diego. He was formerly Shuster Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Professor of Classical Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

• Preface 1: A View of a View of the Good 2: Two Views of a View of a View of the Good 3: A Series of Goods 4: Goodness Across the Categories 5: The Diversity of Sciences 6: Goodness Itself 7: Intrinsic Goods Alone: A Platonic Riposte 8: Normative Considerations Reintroduced 9: Good, Bad, Better, Worse 10: Goodness qua Goodness: A Concluding Scientific Postscript? Bibliography

In this excellent book, which is both exhilarating to read and quite evidently written with heartfelt devotion to the intertwined thoughts of the greatest of the ancient philosophers.