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[from 'comedies (frags)' by Amphis, in 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good ]

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 Reference

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.