Dialogue

 1   Ion|         and envies the rhapsode’s art; for he is always well dressed
 2   Ion|      judges of poetry by rules of art ought to be able to judge
 3   Ion|         is not guided by rules of art, but is an inspired person
 4   Ion|       judge of his own particular art better than the rhapsode.
 5   Ion|           that he understands the art of the general as well as
 6   Ion|         of poetry or of any other art as a whole.~In the Protagoras
 7   Ion|         which is contained in his art of rhetoric. Even more than
 8   Ion|     explain the nature of his own art; his great memory contrasts
 9   Ion|         you can is a part of your art. Then, again, you are obliged
10   Ion|         most laborious part of my art; and I believe myself able
11   Ion|         you a question: Does your art extend to Hesiod and Archilochus,
12   Ion|        speak of Homer without any art or knowledge. If you were
13   Ion|          speak of him by rules of art, you would have been able
14   Ion|        any one acquires any other art as a whole, the same may
15   Ion|   acquired a knowledge of a whole art, the enquiry into good and
16   Ion|           this matter; is not the art of painting a whole?~ION:
17   Ion| excellently about Homer is not an art, but, as I was just saying,
18   Ion|      their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired
19   Ion|           of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired
20   Ion|         kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but
21   Ion|        Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how
22   Ion|         plenty to say; for not by art or knowledge about Homer
23   Ion|           you praise Homer not by art but by divine inspiration.~
24   Ion|        reason be that this is his art, or will there be any other
25   Ion|       reason.~SOCRATES: And every art is appointed by God to have
26   Ion|         that which we know by the art of the pilot we do not know
27   Ion|       pilot we do not know by the art of medicine?~ION: Certainly
28   Ion|   SOCRATES: Nor do we know by the art of the carpenter that which
29   Ion|         that which we know by the art of medicine?~ION: Certainly
30   Ion|       that which we know with one art we do not know with the
31   Ion|           I should, that when one art is of one kind of knowledge
32   Ion|           by the help of the same art of arithmetic, you would
33   Ion|        universally? Must the same art have the same subject of
34   Ion|         knowledge of a particular art will have no right judgment
35   Ion|        sayings and doings of that art?~ION: Very true.~SOCRATES:
36   Ion|            Yes.~SOCRATES: And the art of the rhapsode is different
37   Ion|        Now would you say that the art of the rhapsode or the art
38   Ion|        art of the rhapsode or the art of medicine was better able
39   Ion|          of these lines?~ION: The art of medicine.~SOCRATES: And
40   Ion|          fishes (Il.),’—~will the art of the fisherman or of the
41   Ion|            Clearly, Socrates, the art of the fisherman.~SOCRATES:
42   Ion|         the prophet and prophetic art’; and you will see how readily
43   Ion|       rhapsode and the rhapsode’s art, and which the rhapsode
44   Ion|    remember that you declared the art of the rhapsode to be different
45   Ion|          to be different from the art of the charioteer?~ION:
46   Ion|     showing the rhapsode, and the art of the rhapsode, will not
47   Ion|        SOCRATES: Well, but is the art of the rhapsode the art
48   Ion|           art of the rhapsode the art of the general?~ION: I am
49   Ion|           have a knowledge of the art of the general as well as
50   Ion|         you: By the help of which art, Ion, do you know whether
51   Ion|          judging of the general’s art, do you judge of it as a
52   Ion|          you mean to say that the art of the rhapsode and of the
53   Ion|         correct in saying that by art and knowledge you are able
54   Ion|           far from exhibiting the art of which you are a master,
55   Ion|     Homeric lore. And if you have art, then, as I was saying,
56   Ion|         as I believe, you have no art, but speak all these beautiful
57   Ion|        Homer inspiration, and not art.~THE END~