Aristotle on the Apparent Good John Marcus and of various attempts at

and of various attempts at defining them

This book is an innovative investigation of how these arguments changed over time

and then again abated

The heart of the new strategy places greater emphasis on restraint

Aristotle on the Apparent Good John Marcus and of various attempts atAristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for something to appear good? Why does pleasure in particular tend to appear good, as Aristotle holds? And how do appearances of goodness motivate desire and action? No sustained study of Aristotle has addressed these questions, or even recognized them as worth asking. Jessica Moss argues that the notion of the apparent good is