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This 20 page paper examines Plato's Form of the Good, as well as forms in general, and compares and contrasts the concept to the Enlightenment concept associated with Zen Buddhism. An overview of each is provided. The ideas are compared and contrasted and similarities and differences are duly noted.
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are the things that make up life but it is perhaps the gray areas, or all the things in between, that is rather noticeable in ones lifetime. Yet, within extremes
of categories are areas that are not as easily definable. What is good and what is bad? What is moral and what is immoral? Is the lying promise acceptable? Do
the ends always justify the means? Many questions are asked in the realm of philosophy and rightly so. It is difficult to discern the answers to these compelling questions as
concrete solutions are not so easily achieved. For example, good is the opposite of bad, but good is also the opposite of evil. What does that do to the concept
of opposites? In other words, what is the opposite of good? In Meno, Socrates asks "Do you mean that they think the evils which they desire to be good; or
do they know that they are evil and yet desire them? " (Plato Meno). And then Meno answers "Both, as I think" to that question (Plato Meno). Socrates then asks
Meno whether or not he thinks that if a man knows evil to be evil and also desires them? Meno answers in the affirmative to that and other questions. Later
on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will do them good know that they are evils?" (Plato Meno). He answers no to that,
thus confirming the point that no one does evil knowingly. People who think that evil will be beneficial, definitively are not evil because they do not understand evil. At least
that is true according to Plato. Finally, Meno says: "That appears to be the truth, Socrates, and I admit that nobody desires evil" (Plato Meno). Basically, Plato contends that people
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