From The Republic By The Great Philosopher Plato The Good, As Ultimate Object of Knowledge The highest? he asked. But is there anything higher than justice and the other qualities we discussed? There is, I said. And we ought not to be content with the sight of a mere sketch even of these qualities, or fail to complete the picture in detail. For it would be absurd, would it not, to devote all our energies to securing the greatest possible precision and clarity in matters of little consequence, and not to demand the highest precision in the most important things of all? Quite absurd, he agreed. But you can hardly expect to escape cross questioning about what you call the highest form of Knowledge and its object. I dont expect to escape from you, I returned. Ask your questions. Though youve heard about it often enough, and either dont understand for the moment, or else are deliberately giving me trouble by your persistence, I suspect its the latter, because you have certainly often been told that the highest form of Knowledge is Knowledge of the form of the good, from which things that are just and so on derive their usefulness and value.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:45:41 +0000
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