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  • Part 5 - Winding Up

  • Sarah Broadie, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book:
    Plato's Sun-Like Good
    Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    22 July 2021, pp 206-225

  • Summary

    Part 5 revisits some earlier themes and takes some of them a bit further. Topics include: the indefinability of ‘good’; the mistake of modelling dialectic on mathematics; the relation of the form of the good to other forms; the sun-like form of the good versus the participand; the correlativity of intelligence and the good; the role of moral and intellectual education; the practicality of the rulers’ dialectic and how this makes it impossible for Socrates to produce examples; how the ‘ordinariness’ of this sort of reasoning is not at odds with Plato’s solemnity about it; how, even when writing the Republic, he could have envisaged dialectic as including investigations of a more theoretical and technical nature than those which (according to this book) characterize his ideal rulers; and, finally, the Republic’s stance of naïve realism about forms.