Good
Parent categories: morals - conflict between good and evil - quality
Man is good by nature but is corrupted by society --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Related: beauty - fine art - free - god - good taste - great
Contrast: bad
"It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." -- Oscar Wilde in Lady Windemere's Fan
Definition
A definition of goodness would be valuable because it might allow one to construct a good life or society by reliable processes of deduction, elaboration or prioritization. One could answer the ancient question, "How then should we live?"Sadly, known definitions are meaningless, circular, or long lists of cultural values. --http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodness
Good as quality
The term quality is often used to show how good something or somebody is. In the case of a person this is considered in a particular context, such as worker, student, sportsperson, etc.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi quote
1970 Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology, in reply to being asked what he would do if he were twenty today: "I would share with my classmates rejection of the whole world as it is--all of it. Is there any point in studying and work? Fornication--at least that is something good. What else is there to do? Fornicate and take drugs against the terrible strain of idiots who govern the world." [Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, in *The New York Times*, Feb. 20, 1970, quoted in Mary Breastead, *Oh! Sex Education!*, p. 359]White [...]
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