The Platonic Highest Good (II)

Lodge, Rupert Clendon

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“…The topic of The Good is one of the oldest in philosophy. In ancient times, the concept is first and foremost associated with Plato (Republic, Philebus, Timaeus;Lodge, , 1927b, Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics; Aufderheide and Bader, 2015), and various (neo-) Platonists: Plotinus (The Enneads; see, especially the ninth tractate), Proclus (The Elements of Theology), etc. During the Middle Ages, many philosophers and theologians such as Boethius, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and William Ockham discussed the notions of goodness and the highest good, or Summum Bonum (MacDonald, 1991), concepts that continued to be important for various Enlightenment thinkers.…”

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