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• Title:
  Why Is Plato’s Good Good?
• Creator:
  Nathan, Aidan R.
• Description:
  The form of the Good in Plato’s Phaedo and Republic seems, by our standards, to do too much: it is presented as the metaphysical princi­ple, the epistemological principle and the principle of ethics. Yet this seemingly chimerical object makes good sense in the broader context of Plato’s philosophical project. He sought certain knowledge of neces­sary truths (in sharp contrast to the contingent truth of modern science). Thus, to be knowable the cosmos must be informed by timeless princi­ples; and this leads to teleology and the Good. The form of the Good, it is argued, is what makes the world knowable insofar as it is knowable. This interpretation plugs a significant gap in the scholarship on the Good and draws attention to a deep connection between Plato’s episte­mology and his teleological understanding of the cosmos.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Aidan R. Nathan;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
• Date:
  2022.12.23
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Articles;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022); 125-136;
  Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Tom 13 Nr 1 (2022); 125-136;
  2082-7539
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/36543/31260
• Subject:
  Form of the Good;
  teleology;
  Plato’s epistemology;
  necessity
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/36543
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text