The Predicative Role of 'Being Good' in Aristotle

The 'good', Aristotle says, is spoken of in many ways (???????? ???????). The topic is raised in three well-known and debated passages: Nicomachean Ethics 1096a19-34, Eudemian Ethics 1217b23-1218a1, and Topics 107a3-12. The salient aspect emerging from the Ethics passages is that the multivocity of 'good' is presented as wholly analogous to the multivocity of 'being', which is to say, that 'good' is spoken of in all the categories (?? ?????? ???? ???????????). In the Topics passage the parallel between 'good' and 'being' is not made explicit, but it is easy to find in the passage various references to the categories.