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Full Idea
The good seems to us a nothingness, since there is no thing that is good. But this nothingness is not unreal.
Gist of Idea
The good is a nothingness, and yet real
Source
Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace (9 extracts) [1943], p.278)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'An Anthology' [Penguin 1986], p.278
A Reaction
A neat move in the notoriously difficult platonic problem of specifying the actual nature of the good.