d view of the good, that goal, according to Plato, represents the goal of the philosopher and is the overriding vision that equates to philosophy. As he explains in The Republic:
But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally, either in public or private life must have his eye fixed (Plato, 1987,
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