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The Good

In Plato, the highest Form, source of being and knowability, compared to the sun.

Also: Form of the Good, agathon

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

In the Republic, Socrates says that the Form of the Good is beyond being in dignity and power, giving all things their being and their intelligibility, as the sun gives visible things their light and their growth. Plotinus identified the Good with the One.