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  • Part 1 - Approaching the Sun-Good Analogy

  • Sarah Broadie, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book:
    Plato's Sun-Like Good
    Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    22 July 2021, pp 1-12

  • Summary

    The topics of Part 1, an introductory chapter, include: the form of the good; dialectic; the possibility of Plato's 'Callipolis'; the nature of the true philosopher; the philosopher-rulers' intellectual task; the 'most important thing(s) to learn'; the virtues; the meaning of the 'longer way'; the good as a reference point for distinguishing true from false accounts of virtues and virtuous things; and the definability (or not) of the good.