Talk:Form of the Good

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We don't start articles with the article so I'm moving this to "Form of the Good"

I don't know who wrote the above, but in any case this seems a bad choice. It insists before the reader even starts that any concept of the Good involves a theory of forms.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 07:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed with Andrew. In addition, the term "Form" is not accurate. It should be titled "Idea of the Good". As explained in _Altared Ground_ by Brian Schroeder on page 34, "Plato never refers to the Good as εἶδον, only as ἰδέα." And εἶδον is translated as "form," while ἰδέα is translated as "idea." So the Good is only "the condition of being for the rest of the forms," it is not necessarily a form itself. Zubachi (talk) 18:15, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Colgate University restructure

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Good work, thank you. (I don't think you actually meant to say you added more original research in the WP sense of the term but rather more verifiable material).—Machine Elf ¹⁷³⁵ 22:11, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Cat Haidy el zohiry (talk) 15:15, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Grammatical issue

This sentence is grammatically confusing, but I don't know how to fix it, because I don't know enough about the subject. It is the first sentence in the section titled "Scholarly analysis." Could someone please fix it up?

> Plato writes that the Form (or Idea) of the Good, although not knowledge itself, and from the Good, things that are just, gain their usefulness and value.

Bmeacham (talk) 16:29, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Logos

Isn't this known as the form of Logos and this should be mentioned? Nikolaih^☎️📖 23:15, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scholars on similarities to Abrahamic concept of God?

"perfect, eternal, and changeless..., existing outside space and time." These seem to be descriptions often attributed to (the Abrahamic) God, have any philosophers or theologians spoken on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AverroesII (talk • contribs) 13:53, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]