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Single Idea 4007

[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good ]

Full Idea

For Plato, once we see the Good, we cease to be fascinated by and absorbed in the search for honour and pleasure as we were before.

Gist of Idea

For Plato we abandon honour and pleasure once we see the Good

Source

report of Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 505d) by Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self §3.2

Book Ref

Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.70

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A Reaction

This is the quasi-religious aspect of the Good - that it is more like a vision than a reason