In this essay, titled “Self-Knowledge and the Good,” Lloyd P. Gerson argues that self-knowledge, as understood, within Platonic philosophy, is knowledge of intellect, since intellect is the truest human self. Self-knowledge, in other words, is knowledge not merely of our occurrent subjective states, but of our ideal (read: most real) self. Self-knowledge, then, cannot be understood without inquiring into what is truly good for ourselves and, in the end, knowing the Superordinate Idea of the Good. The wisdom sought by philosophy as such just is self-knowledge, for self-knowledge is ultimately knowledge of the Good.