Ideas from 'comedies (frags)' by Amphis [350 BCE], by Theme Structure

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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
I can form no notion of what the good is
                        Full Idea: What the good is I no more can form a notion of, than of the good of Plato.
                        From: Amphis (comedies (frags) [c.350 BCE]), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 03.1.22
                        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.