Is the ethics of Philebus a pluralistic ethics?
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Translation by Silvia Regina Barros da Cunha.
Taking as a general hypothesis that the ethics of the Philebus is an ethics of the good life or an eudaimonics, I aim to demonstrate in this article that it is also, as the Aristotelian one, a pluralistic or inclusive ethics. My main arguments for this conclusion may be enounced as follows: 1) the open attitude of Socrates and Protarchus, the main speakers of the dialogue, in contrast with the Philebus’ dogmatic one, 2) the method that Plato sets going for the construction of his Philebian ethics, 3) the ontological principles he sets up as a basis of such an ethics, 4) the elements that the main speakers finally include in the mixed good that the ἀνθρώπινων ἀγαθόν (anthrôpinon agathón) is. I maintain moreover that a close analysis of these arguments helps, as Gadamer would say, to better understand the Aristotelian ethics.
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