ABSTRACT
Introduction to the fundamental Aristotelian distinction between actuality and potentiality, which is the basis for what follows. I develop the concept of appetites as essential tendencies of things, arguing that fulfilment of appetite is where we find fundamental goodness. This is being itself: being and goodness are ‘convertible’, as the Scholastics say. Where there is actual being there is potentiality for the fulfilment of the tendencies of that being, and such fulfilment is good.
