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Full Idea
Does the universe possess goodness and excellence as something separated and by itself, or because of its arrangement? But why should it not be both ways?
Gist of Idea
Is excellence separate from things, or part of them, or both?
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1075a14)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.385