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In Plato’s thought:

The Form of the Good is the highest and most fundamental of all Forms.

It is not a good thing, but the source of all goodness, truth, and even being itself.

Just as the sun gives light to physical objects so we can see them, the Form of the Good gives intelligibility to all other Forms so that the mind can understand them.

Is God the Form of the Good?
Plato doesn’t talk about "God" in the Abrahamic sense (like in Christianity or Islam), but many later thinkers, especially Christian and Islamic philosophers, identified:

God = the Form of the Good

For example:

Plotinus (Neoplatonist): Described "The One" as the source of all reality, similar to God.

Augustine: Merged Plato’s Form of the Good with the Christian God.

Al-Ghazali and Avicenna (Ibn Sina): Integrated Platonic and Islamic views, seeing God as the necessary being and ultimate cause of all good.

>wake up
>time to make another chatgpt plato thread and not actually read plato
>time to reply to myself with ai generated jesus pictures
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>>24464182 (OP)

in Plato’s philosophy, especially in The Republic, the Form of the Good is indeed the pinnacle of his Theory of Forms. It is not merely one good thing among others, but rather the ultimate source of all other Forms’ being and intelligibility. Plato likens it to the sun in the famous Analogy of the Sun (Book VI): just as the sun illuminates physical objects so that they can be seen and known, the Form of the Good “illuminates” all other Forms, making them intelligible to the soul.

>>24464182 (OP)
Plato was the greatest man to ever live. Smartest man in his era but also a heavy weight champ mma fighter. Who does that, who can even do that? The man Plato

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