Single Idea 393

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good]

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.354 BCE], 67a) by PG - Db (ideas)

Book Reference

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?