Q0493

Plato

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English

The Good… is to be honored still more highly than knowledge and truth.
Thinker Plato
School Platonism
Source Republic VI 508e–509a
Theme Good
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Republic VI 508e–509a, within the tradition of Platonism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of good, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Plato's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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  1. Justice is doing one's own work and not meddling in others'.
  2. Love is the desire for the perpetual possession of the good.
  3. Let us not become haters of argument — that is a great danger to the soul.
  4. Extreme freedom seems to change into nothing but extreme slavery.
  5. Picture human beings as if living in an underground, cave-like dwelling.

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More on good

  1. What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee.
  2. To avoid all evil, to cultivate the good, and to cleanse one's mind—this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
  3. The good is the realization of personality.
  4. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good.
  5. Seeing the good, be earnest to preserve it in yourself; seeing the not-good, be anxious to examine yourself.

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