Dialogue

 1 Charm|           conditions of light and knowledge under which he is living.
 2 Charm|          instance, on an intimate knowledge of the text; but the precise
 3 Charm|       e.g. (Greek), ‘science’ or ‘knowledge,’ (Greek), ‘idea’ or ‘class,’ (
 4 Charm|         time ‘of more than mortal knowledge’ (Rep.). But they are always
 5 Charm|        are always the subjects of knowledge and not of opinion; and
 6 Charm|       attain approximately to the knowledge of the ideas. But whereas
 7 Charm|         good.~Still an element of knowledge is wanting which Critias
 8 Charm|        that (6) Temperance is the knowledge of what a man knows and
 9 Charm|           how then can there be a knowledge of knowledge? That which
10 Charm|           there be a knowledge of knowledge? That which is older, heavier,
11 Charm|          and whether that sort of knowledge which we term Temperance
12 Charm|        metaphysician. But even if knowledge can know itself, how does
13 Charm|         know itself, how does the knowledge of what we know imply the
14 Charm|         of what we know imply the knowledge of what we do not know?
15 Charm|          we do not know? Besides, knowledge is an abstraction only,
16 Charm|         Admitting that there is a knowledge of what we know and of what
17 Charm|          no good in this; and the knowledge which temperance gives must
18 Charm|          good. But this universal knowledge does not tend to our happiness
19 Charm|        and good: the only kind of knowledge which brings happiness is
20 Charm|           brings happiness is the knowledge of good and evil. To this
21 Charm|       replies that the science or knowledge of good and evil, and all
22 Charm|          by the higher science or knowledge of knowledge. Socrates replies
23 Charm|           science or knowledge of knowledge. Socrates replies by again
24 Charm|       concrete, and asks how this knowledge conduces to happiness in
25 Charm|      therefore better rest in the knowledge that the more temperate
26 Charm|          an element of science or knowledge is not included; (6) The
27 Charm|          science, and whether the knowledge of what you know is the
28 Charm|           know is the same as the knowledge of what you do not know;
29 Charm|         the subjective element in knowledge—a ‘rich banquet’ of metaphysical
30 Charm|          introduce the element of knowledge, and at last to unite good
31 Charm|      writings identifies good and knowledge, here opposes them, and
32 Charm|     Aristotle, how can there be a knowledge of knowledge, and even if
33 Charm|           there be a knowledge of knowledge, and even if attainable,
34 Charm|        attainable, how can such a knowledge be of any use?~The difficulty
35 Charm|         self-knowledge, or of the knowledge of what we know and do not
36 Charm|        and do not know, or of the knowledge of good and evil. The dialogue
37 Charm|    history of philosophy in which knowledge and action were not yet
38 Charm|       certainty.~The relations of knowledge and virtue are again brought
39 Charm|           abstract and particular knowledge in this dialogue may be
40 Charm|         to be the very essence of knowledge, and in this I agree with
41 Charm|          or wisdom, if implying a knowledge of anything, must be a science,
42 Charm|          perfectly possible, such knowledge is of any use.~That is what
43 Charm|           who has this science or knowledge which knows itself will
44 Charm|       itself will become like the knowledge which he has, in the same
45 Charm|         beautiful, and he who has knowledge will know. In the same way
46 Charm|          same way he who has that knowledge which is self-knowing, will
47 Charm|           know is the same as the knowledge of self.~What do you mean?
48 Charm|           other is not science or knowledge?~No, just that.~But is knowledge
49 Charm|  knowledge?~No, just that.~But is knowledge or want of knowledge of
50 Charm|           is knowledge or want of knowledge of health the same as knowledge
51 Charm|   knowledge of health the same as knowledge or want of knowledge of
52 Charm|           as knowledge or want of knowledge of justice?~Certainly not.~
53 Charm|          which we are speaking is knowledge pure and simple.~Very true.~
54 Charm|          knows only, and has only knowledge of knowledge, and has no
55 Charm|         and has only knowledge of knowledge, and has no further knowledge
56 Charm|     knowledge, and has no further knowledge of health and justice, the
57 Charm|      something, and has a certain knowledge, whether concerning himself
58 Charm|          True.~Then how will this knowledge or science teach him to
59 Charm|        wisdom, regarded only as a knowledge of knowledge or science
60 Charm|   regarded only as a knowledge of knowledge or science of science, ever
61 Charm|        wise appears to be not the knowledge of the things which we do
62 Charm|         do not know, but only the knowledge that we know or do not know?~
63 Charm|   inference.~Then he who has this knowledge will not be able to examine
64 Charm|           only know that he has a knowledge of some kind; but wisdom
65 Charm|          not show him of what the knowledge is?~Plainly not.~Neither
66 Charm|       true and false professor of knowledge. Let us consider the matter
67 Charm|           some kind of science or knowledge; but when he wants to discover
68 Charm|        But can any one attain the knowledge of either unless he have
69 Charm|           either unless he have a knowledge of medicine?~He cannot.~
70 Charm|           physician can have this knowledge; and therefore not the wise
71 Charm|         the absence of science or knowledge, will not be able to distinguish
72 Charm|       just that of which they had knowledge; and the house or state
73 Charm|        this new light merely as a knowledge of knowledge and ignorance,
74 Charm|          merely as a knowledge of knowledge and ignorance, has this
75 Charm|        that he who possesses such knowledge will more easily learn anything
76 Charm|       because, in addition to the knowledge of individuals, he sees
77 Charm|     better enable him to test the knowledge which others have of what
78 Charm|      enquirer who is without this knowledge may be supposed to have
79 Charm|     suggested, that wisdom is the knowledge of what we know and do not
80 Charm|       that prophecy, which is the knowledge of the future, will be under
81 Charm|         live and act according to knowledge, for wisdom would watch
82 Charm|    whether by acting according to knowledge we shall act well and be
83 Charm|      replied, that if you discard knowledge, you will hardly find the
84 Charm|         else.~But of what is this knowledge? I said. Just answer me
85 Charm|           question. Do you mean a knowledge of shoemaking?~God forbid.~
86 Charm|         he who lives according to knowledge is happy, for these live
87 Charm|           these live according to knowledge, and yet they are not allowed
88 Charm| individuals who live according to knowledge, such for example as the
89 Charm|         of the different kinds of knowledge makes him happy? or do all
90 Charm|      tends to make him happy? the knowledge of what past, present, or
91 Charm|        May I infer this to be the knowledge of the game of draughts?~
92 Charm|          truth, he said.~And that knowledge which is nearest of all,
93 Charm|    nearest of all, I said, is the knowledge of what?~The knowledge with
94 Charm|        the knowledge of what?~The knowledge with which he discerns good
95 Charm|        that the life according to knowledge is not that which makes
96 Charm|         and be happy, not even if knowledge include all the sciences,
97 Charm|           that wisdom is only the knowledge of knowledge and of ignorance,
98 Charm|          is only the knowledge of knowledge and of ignorance, and of
99 Charm|        show that the wise man had knowledge of what he knew and did