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Single Idea 393
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Full Idea
Good is supreme, followed by beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pure pleasure, then mixed pleasure.
Gist of Idea
Good first, then beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pleasure
Source
report of Plato (Philebus [c.353 BCE], 67a) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Philebus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1982], p.149
A Reaction
He tells us that pure pleasures are simple pleasures. Epicurus presumably read this. No mention of truth, unless that is part of reason. Why does he value beauty so highly?
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[candidates for what is supremely good]:
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3028
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The chief good is unity, sometimes seen as prudence, or God, or intellect
[Eucleides]
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393
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Good first, then beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pleasure
[Plato, by PG]
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9274
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Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True
[Plato, by Gray]
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5131
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Intelligence and sight, and some pleasures and honours, are candidates for being good in themselves
[Aristotle]
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5135
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Goods are external, of the soul, and of the body; those of the soul (such as action) come first
[Aristotle]
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5110
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Goodness is when a thing (such as a circle) is complete, and conforms with its nature
[Aristotle]
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20843
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Final goods: confidence, prudence, freedom, enjoyment and no pain, good spirits, virtue
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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23328
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The essences of good and evil are in dispositions to choose
[Epictetus]
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22755
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Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone
[Sext.Empiricus]
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7821
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Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good
[Augustine, by Grayling]
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12957
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The good is the virtuous, the pleasing, or the useful
[Leibniz]
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8117
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Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good)
[Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]
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19450
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Reason, love and will are the highest perfections and essence of man - the purpose of his life
[Feuerbach]
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21747
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Goodness is a combination of love and knowledge
[Russell]
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5925
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The three main values are good, right and beauty
[Moore,GE, by Ross]
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5910
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The three intrinsic goods are virtue, knowledge and pleasure
[Ross]
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5932
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The four goods are: virtue, pleasure, just allocation of pleasure, and knowledge
[Ross]
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22379
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The meaning of 'good' and other evaluations must include the object to which they attach
[Foot]
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18224
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Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property
[Korsgaard]
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