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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
> Can anyone else subdivide their preferred reading genre?
sure: there's good reads and bad ones :-D
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You had to get all philosophical. . . I also enjoy reading philosophy books mostly by Mortimer J. Adler (who most notably wrote
How to Read a Book). Adler defines the word "good" in the following manner.
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The word "good" is used in a number of senses. The first is its use as an adjective, with a comparative and a superlative, as in good, better, best. This is its grading sense, in which things are judged for their exchange value. It is of little interest to the moral philosopher except in its use with regard to the summum bonum or the highest good, the best among all the real goods that are objects of desire (See Ends and Means.)
Another sense of the word is its use as a noun, when it refers to all the goods that are objects of desire, the real and apparent goods, the goods needed and wanted.
Finally, there is a sense that is unfamiliar to most individuals. This is the ontological good -- the intrinsic perfection that everything which exists possesses. Here, as Augustine tells us, a mouse has a perfection or goodness that is greater than that possessed by an inanimate stone like a pearl. Living organisms have more intrinsic perfection, than inanimate and inert things, even though the latter may have greater value in the marketplace.
http://www.thegreatideas.org/apd-good.html
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Now I have to look up what the word "bad" means.
