Single Idea 5910

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

Full Idea

There are three main things which are intrinsically good - virtue, knowledge, and with certain limitations, pleasure.

Gist of Idea

The three intrinsic goods are virtue, knowledge and pleasure

Source

W. David Ross (The Right and the Good [1930], §II)

Book Reference

Ross,W.David: 'The Right and the Good' [OUP 1930], p.24


A Reaction

This combines the views of most of the main schools of ancient Greece. For Socrates, knowledge delivers the others; for Aristippus, pleasure eclipses the others; for Zeno of Citium, virtue is all that matters. Ross is a pluralist, like Aristotle.