{"id":411,"date":"2010-11-22T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=411"},"modified":"2013-08-28T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:03:08","slug":"analects-of-the-core-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/11\/22\/analects-of-the-core-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Plato on the idea of good"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Liken the domain revealed through sight to the prison home, and the light of the fire in it to the sun&#8217;s power; and, in applying the going up and the seeing of what&#8217;s above to the soul&#8217;s journey up to the intelligible place&#8230; A god doubtless knows if it happens to be true.\u00a0 At all events, this is the way the phenomena look to me: in the knowable the last thing to be seen, and with considerable effort, is the <em>idea<\/em> of good; but once seen, it must be concluded that this is in fact the cause of all that is right and fair in everything&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Socrates, as quoted by Plato in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Republic-Plato-Second\/dp\/0465069347\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1290463155&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>The Republic<\/em><\/a> (Book VII: 517, translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allan_Bloom\">Allan Bloom<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liken the domain revealed through sight to the prison home, and the light of the fire in it to the sun&#8217;s power; and, in applying the going up and the seeing of what&#8217;s above to the soul&#8217;s journey up to the intelligible place&#8230; A god doubtless knows if it happens to be true.\u00a0 At all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[4219,3689,4218,4220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}