The phrase "asserted that the good" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's claim or statement regarding a positive aspect or quality of something.
Example: "The researcher asserted that the good in the community was largely due to the volunteer efforts of its members."
Alternatives: "claimed that the positive" or "stated that the benefits".
The lawsuit also accuses eBay of not revoking the privileges of the sellers after receiving complaints from other users who asserted that the goods were fraudulent.
In his critique of Plato's Idea of the Good, finally, Aristotle asserts that the good is said in as many ways as being, and hence falls short of the univocity proper to a Platonic idea.
Augustine held that Plato had asserted that the supreme good, possession of which alone gives us blessedness, is God, 'and therefore (Plato) thought that to be a philosopher is to be a lover of God.' (De Civ. Dei VIII.8).
The charter asserted that the colonies existed for the good of the mother country, prohibited free trade, and decreed that the colonies would be governed directly by a semi-autonomous native bureaucracy and indirectly by a Dutch bureaucracy.
Walzer adopted a clearly relativistic position in his book Spheres of Justice (1983), in which he asserted that the caste system is "good" by the standards of traditional Indian society.
Mr. Steiner asserts that good would come from such a future.
In recent years, critics assert that good governance among recipients has been neglected too often.
Rose (1995) asserts that good metrics are either customer-centered with a focus on indicators that provide value to customers, or they are associated with internal work processes.
But now new research contradicts those findings by asserting that -- while good for you -- exercise actually won't help ease hot flashes.
Instead, Mr. Bush and other administration officials have asserted that the economy is fundamentally in good shape.
