And so with the objects of knowledge: these derive from the Good not only their power of being known, but their very being and reality; and Goodness is not the same thing as being, but even beyond being, surpassing it in dignity and power.


The Republic bk. 6, 509b (translated by F. M. Cornford)


And so with the objects of knowledge: these derive from the Good not only their power of being known, but their very being and reality; and Goodness...

And so with the objects of knowledge: these derive from the Good not only their power of being known, but their very being and reality; and Goodness...

And so with the objects of knowledge: these derive from the Good not only their power of being known, but their very being and reality; and Goodness...

And so with the objects of knowledge: these derive from the Good not only their power of being known, but their very being and reality; and Goodness...