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Lothar Philipps
The British Philosopher Bernard Williams has drawn our attention to a strange logical phenomenon: From sentences such as “He is a good physician” we cannot infer “He is a good man”, whereas from “He is a healthy physician.” we can infer: “He is a healthy man.” We find a counterpart to this observation in Platon's dialogue Menon. Menon, when asked by Socrates to defi ne “virtue”, insists that there is no common virtue, be it for man or woman or for any other social role. Different again is according to Menon the concept of health. It is identical for men and women. Why these differences? “Good” or “virtue” when used as above do not attribute something to a (human) being, but constitute a different sort of being – a social role. Those words mean the constituent of a role, its “Sein des Seienden” in the language of Heidegger or the early Maihofer.
