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Single Idea 7821

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good]

Full Idea

Augustine claimed that the pagan schools between them had produced nearly three hundred different definitions of the highest good.

Gist of Idea

Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good

Source

report of Augustine (works [c.415]) by A.C. Grayling - What is Good? Ch.5

Book Reference

Grayling,A.C.: 'What is Good? The Best Way to Live' [Phoenix 2003], p.116


A Reaction

I would expect the right definition to be in there somewhere, but no doubt Augustine's definition made it 301. Perhaps the biggest problem of human life is that (as with the Kennedy assassination) proliferating stories obscure the true story.