[MD] Plato's Good

[X Acto]

Ant, Mark, Tuukka, all,
Plato's Good, as distinct from the Good of the early Socratic dialogs (which is more akin to Pirsigs Quality), 
seems to have been drawn from the Parmenidian "one"and the divinty of number of the Pythagoreans which
we begin to see develop in the Republic (on justice) and more fleshed out in Timaeus as the central defining
theme of Plato's later works and Platonism as a whole. Timaeus was a central text in Platonism in the middle
ages the only one available in latin at the time and the subject of many controversies.
When the form of the Good is co-mingled with the concept of the demiurge we can see how God, order and
the fixed eternal good develop into the encapsulation Pirsig rails against. 
 
-Ron