The Essence of Truth

The proper and original meaning of ἀγαθóν refers to what is good (suitable) for something, what can be put to use. ‘Good!’ means: it is done! it is decided! It does not have any kind of moral meaning: ethics has corrupted the fundamental meaning of this word.

Only in the rigour of questioning do we come into the vicinity of the unsayable.

Even so, what is viewed remains, as Plato says (341 c 5): ῥητὸν λὰρ οὐδαμῶϛ ἐστιν ὡϛ ἄλλα μαθήματα, ‘it is not sayable like other things we can learn’.