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Single Idea 3032
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
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Full Idea
What the good is I no more can form a notion of, than of the good of Plato.
Gist of Idea
I can form no notion of what the good is
Source
Amphis (comedies (frags) [c.350 BCE]), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 03.1.22
Book Ref
Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.123
A Reaction
It was evidently a running joke in the ancient world that no one could define Plato's Form of the Good. He was said to have written a book on it, now lost.
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[goodness as a perfect and eternal idea]:
21819
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Plato says the Good produces the Intellectual-Principle, which in turn produces the Soul
[Homer, by Plotinus]
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295
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The good is beautiful
[Plato]
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391
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The good involves beauty, proportion and truth
[Plato]
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392
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Neither intellect nor pleasure are the good, because they are not perfect and self-sufficient
[Plato]
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2137
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The main aim is to understand goodness, which gives everything its value and advantage
[Plato]
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4007
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For Plato we abandon honour and pleasure once we see the Good
[Plato, by Taylor,C]
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2139
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Every person, and every activity, aims at the good
[Plato]
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2143
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Good has the same role in the world of knowledge as the sun has in the physical world
[Plato]
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2144
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Goodness makes truth and knowledge possible
[Plato]
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2147
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The sight of goodness leads to all that is fine and true and right
[Plato]
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2164
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Bad is always destructive, where good preserves and benefits
[Plato]
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3032
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I can form no notion of what the good is
[Amphis]
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20
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The good is 'that at which all things aim'
[Aristotle]
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5128
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Each category of existence has its own good, so one Good cannot unite them
[Aristotle]
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5129
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There should be one science of the one Good, but there are many overlapping sciences
[Aristotle]
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629
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Is the good a purpose, a source of movement, or a pure form?
[Aristotle]
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5999
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The good is what is perfect by nature
[Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]
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22754
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Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it
[Sext.Empiricus]
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11057
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It is always an open question whether anything that is natural is good
[Moore,GE]
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5921
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We can ask of pleasure or beauty whether they are valuable, but not of goodness
[Ross]
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24193
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If we focus on the good, our whole soul is drawn towards it
[Weil]
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23808
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There are two goods - the absolute good we want, and the reachable opposite of evil
[Weil]
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23833
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The good is a nothingness, and yet real
[Weil]
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22489
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'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red'
[Geach, by Foot]
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21891
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The good is implicitly violent (against evil), so there is no pure good
[Derrida]
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