ABSTRACT
Introduction Thus far, we have been building an argument that moral agency does not occur in a vacuum. If we revisit the fundamental question of ethics, “How do I live a good life?” we beg the question “What is the good by which I choose to live?” The concept of good is elusive, like time-we have a sense of what it is but struggle to find a representative definition. Good is synonymous with excellent, righteous, or even pious. The alternate of good is evil, which is equally difficult to define. In the metaphysics of Plato, the good was a question of the ultimate knowledge, most famously depicted in his “allegory of the cave” in The Republic. For Aristotle, good was tied to virtue and happiness. His notion of arete referred to a form of moral excellence that was an intrinsic, rather than instrumental, good.
