Form of the Good

Understanding Plato’s Form of the Good can be very challenging. However, by understanding the hierarchy of Forms and the difference between the sensible and intelligible world we can make sense of Plato’s ideas. To start, we need to remember that Plato believed that everything we see around us is only an imitation of true objects. Before we were born our souls roamed the World of Forms. While our souls were in this world they learned about true knowledge. Everything that we know today is our soul remembering what it learned in the past. Plato spoke of two “worlds” the sensible and the intelligible. He used the analogy of men chained up in a cave. The men chained and watching the shadows on the wall are living in the sensible world.…

As Plato writes in the dialogue The Republic, the form of the good is responsible for all truth and knowledge in a society. Since Plato and his colleagues have been debating on how a city state should be ruled and the qualifications the ruler should possess, he begins to examine how the form of the good would be useful for a ruler’s education of the rational part of the soul. As Plato has previously stated, the rational part of the soul allows the mind to have knowledge and wisdom while trying…

our sins. Jesus’s love is the highest form of love there is. Even though Jesus is the only one whose love is perfect, he still commands us to love like He did. John 13:34 says, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” Plato also has this idea of teaching those to reach the highest form possible, like Jesus teaches us to love as much as He did. He calls it the Form of the Good. The Form of the Good is the ultimate goal of knowledge. Plato…

In this paper I will be defending Plato’s style of philosophy and why philosopher kings are best suited to rule, this will also encompass the Forms as it is key to understanding why they are the best suited. Plato uses his Forms to further his knowledge of the difference between people whom he would consider to be true philosophers and people whom he would refer to simply as intellectuals. Plato affirms that a philosopher is best suited to say how people should live based upon the knowledge that…

differences between him and Christian Philosophers though. In my paper I will discuss Plato’s ideas in regards to forms, and form of the good in particular as well as his ideas about divinity and gods, next I will discuss St. Augustine of Hippo’s ideas from Christianity. After introducing their beliefs, I will show the comparisons, and then the differences between the Form of Good and Christianity. Plato lived in Greece from 430 to 347 B.C. and he was arguably the brightest student of Socrates.…

Over the course of their training, superiors of the prospective rulers evaluate their abilities to determine if they should continue with their training or become auxiliaries, or enforcers. It is not until the prospective rulers are fifty years old that they completely understand the “Form of Good” and are chosen to become the philosopher-king rulers of the city (Plato 197). This “Form of Good” is what allegedly makes them fit leaders and virtually incorruptible. This idea is implausible; nearly…

fundamentally represent two different schools of philosophy. Plato and Aristotle have a variety of opinions of common good, social peace, and individual happiness. This paper will compare and explain the position of the philosophers on these three topics. On the Common Good The Form of the Good is the Form held in the highest regard by Plato. The Form of the Good is the Form that allows a trainee philosopher to reach the status of Philosopher King. It “provides knowledge for truth” and “is…

regime types into three that seek to benefit the community, his good forms and three that seek to serve a rulers’ self-interest, his bad forms. Aristotle’s good forms of regime are kingship, aristocracy and polity while his bad forms of regime are tyranny, oligarchy and democracy. Aristotle describes kingship as the good form of tyranny as they’re each ruled by one man but the goals of those in power are drastically different. Kings are…

1. You need good form to shoot. Your form is the base of being a good shooter. If you have bad form your shot can go to the left or right and you won't be able to fix it. To have good form you need to make sure you make an L with your arm, with the ball on your fingertips, with a small window in between the ball and your hand. You need to keep your elbow close to your body not sticking out or the ball will go all wonky. Make sure your feet are facing where the ball needs to go…

Plato’s forms were objective ideas of perfection of a concept. The forms are an essence of a concept, or a model for the individual, the ideal state. In the dialogue, the Phaedo Socrates is defending his theory of recollection through explaining notions of the forms. “For our argument applies not merely to the equal, but with the same force to the beautiful itself, the good itself, the just, the holy, in fact, as I have just said, to everything upon which we affix our seal and mark as being.”…