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Again, the word ‘good’ is used in as many senses as the word
‘is’; for we may predicate good in the Category of Substance, for
instance of God, or intelligence; in that of Quality—the excellences; in that of
Quantity—moderate in amount; in that of Relation—useful; in that of
Time—a favorable opportunity; in that of Place—a suitable
‘habitat’1; and so on. So clearly good cannot be a single and universal general
notion; if it were, it would not be predicable in all the Categories, but only in
one.
1 δίαιτα is used of the habitat of a species of animals, De mundo 398b 32; though it has been taken here to mean ‘a favorable climate’ for human beings. In Aristoph. Frogs 114 it may mean ‘a lodging’, and later it denotes an apartment or suite of rooms, as in Pliny's descriptions of Italian villas.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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