Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|          form with the matter of knowledge, or invent laws of thought,
 2 Euthyd|       our use. Those who have no knowledge of logic, like some of our
 3 Euthyd|     thought which add nothing to knowledge and are of no use in assisting
 4 Euthyd|         the different spheres of knowledge they are to be studied;
 5 Euthyd|         relative to the state of knowledge which exists at the present
 6 Euthyd|   diversities and oppositions of knowledge which have grown up in these
 7 Euthyd|        and wide on the realms of knowledge. These two great studies,
 8 Euthyd|        is not learning acquiring knowledge?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And you acquire
 9 Euthyd|       which can only be given by knowledge: in themselves they are
10 Euthyd|       are neither good nor evil— knowledge and wisdom are the only
11 Euthyd|  philosophy is the possession of knowledge; and knowledge must be of
12 Euthyd|     possession of knowledge; and knowledge must be of a kind which
13 Euthyd| profitable and may be used. What knowledge is there which has such
14 Euthyd|       has such a nature? Not the knowledge which is required in any
15 Euthyd|          animals. Neither is the knowledge which we are seeking the
16 Euthyd|         which we are seeking the knowledge of the general. For the
17 Euthyd|       having the desired sort of knowledge. But the kingly art only
18 Euthyd|       predication, and thus make knowledge impossible, to whom ideas
19 Euthyd|      that happiness is gained by knowledge. The grammatical puzzles
20 Euthyd|    philosophy is defined as ‘the knowledge which will make us happy;’ (
21 Euthyd|        you really have the other knowledge, O forgive me: I address
22 Euthyd|        is not learning acquiring knowledge of that which one learns?~
23 Euthyd|  assented.~And knowing is having knowledge at the time?~He agreed.~
24 Euthyd|        not knowing is not having knowledge at the time?~He admitted
25 Euthyd|        in the sense of acquiring knowledge of some matter of which
26 Euthyd|     which you previously have no knowledge, and also, when you have
27 Euthyd|          also, when you have the knowledge, in the sense of reviewing
28 Euthyd|     light of this newly-acquired knowledge; the latter is generally
29 Euthyd|         man had all that sort of knowledge that ever was, he would
30 Euthyd|         the right use simply the knowledge of the carpenter?~Nothing
31 Euthyd|          manufacture of vessels, knowledge is that which gives the
32 Euthyd|        health and beauty, is not knowledge that which directs us to
33 Euthyd|        and every use of a thing, knowledge is that which gives a man
34 Euthyd|        not under the guidance of knowledge: under the guidance of ignorance,
35 Euthyd|         use of them, is given by knowledge,—the inference is that everybody
36 Euthyd|       whether he should have all knowledge; or whether there is one
37 Euthyd|     whether there is one sort of knowledge only which will make him
38 Euthyd| philosophy is the acquisition of knowledge?~Yes, he said.~And what
39 Euthyd|           Yes, he said.~And what knowledge ought we to acquire? May
40 Euthyd|     answer with absolute truth—A knowledge which will do us good?~Certainly,
41 Euthyd|        if we went about having a knowledge of the places where most
42 Euthyd|    convert stones into gold, the knowledge would be of no value to
43 Euthyd|        said.~Nor would any other knowledge, whether of money-making,
44 Euthyd|      agreed.~And if there were a knowledge which was able to make men
45 Euthyd|          without giving them the knowledge of the way to use the immortality,
46 Euthyd|         my dear boy, I said, the knowledge which we want is one that
47 Euthyd|   arrived at the conclusion that knowledge of some kind is the only
48 Euthyd|         make us wise, and impart knowledge to us, if that is the science
49 Euthyd|  SOCRATES: But then what is this knowledge, and what are we to do with
50 Euthyd|      good nor evil, and gives no knowledge, but the knowledge of itself;
51 Euthyd|      gives no knowledge, but the knowledge of itself; what then can
52 Euthyd|       say, Crito, that it is the knowledge by which we are to make
53 Euthyd|         if not farther, from the knowledge of the art or science of
54 Euthyd|          sober earnest what that knowledge was which would enable us
55 Euthyd|         Euthydemus show you this knowledge?~SOCRATES: Yes, indeed;
56 Euthyd|      that I should show you this knowledge about which you have been
57 Euthyd|          prove me to have such a knowledge; at my time of life that
58 Euthyd|       knowing.~Certainly, of the knowledge which I have.~That makes
59 Euthyd|       explain how I possess that knowledge for which we were seeking?
60 Euthyd|     things, then I must have the knowledge for which we are seeking—
61 Euthyd|        that they themselves have knowledge. Such are the modes in which