Dialogue

  1 Repub|           friend, do not keep your knowledge to yourself; we are a large
  2 Repub|    non-physician? ~Yes. ~And about knowledge and ignorance in general;
  3 Repub|         think that any man who has knowledge ever would wish to have
  4 Repub|           than another man who has knowledge. Would he not rather say
  5 Repub|            class of goods, such as knowledge, sight, health, which are
  6 Repub|     injustice, or who has attained knowledge of the truth-but no other
  7 Repub|     sakes-like sight or hearing or knowledge or health, or any other
  8 Repub|            dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance? ~Most assuredly. ~
  9 Repub|           be a lover of wisdom and knowledge? ~That we may safely affirm. ~
 10 Repub|         one another, ~"Without the knowledge of their parents" ~or that
 11 Repub|         the rhythm; that degree of knowledge I may presuppose? ~Yes,
 12 Repub|            and study giving us the knowledge of both: Exactly - Even
 13 Repub|             have combined with the knowledge of their art the greatest
 14 Repub|          nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not
 15 Repub|            by time, will acquire a knowledge both of virtue and vice:
 16 Repub|       counsel is clearly a kind of knowledge, for not by ignorance, but
 17 Repub|           not by ignorance, but by knowledge, do men counsel well? ~Clearly. ~
 18 Repub|         Clearly. ~And the kinds of knowledge in a State are many and
 19 Repub|           Of course. ~There is the knowledge of the carpenter; but is
 20 Repub|            but is that the sort of knowledge which gives a city the title
 21 Repub|          wise because possessing a knowledge which counsels for the best
 22 Repub|           not. ~Nor by reason of a knowledge which advises about brazen
 23 Repub|       possessing any other similar knowledge? ~Not by reason of any of
 24 Repub|             Nor yet by reason of a knowledge which cultivates the earth;
 25 Repub|           I said, and is there any knowledge in our recently founded
 26 Repub|    certainly is. ~And what is this knowledge, and among whom is it found?
 27 Repub|         found? I asked. ~It is the knowledge of the guardians, he replied,
 28 Repub|         possession of this sort of knowledge? ~The name of good in counsel
 29 Repub|         profession of some kind of knowledge? ~Much the smallest. ~And
 30 Repub|          part or class, and of the knowledge which resides in this presiding
 31 Repub|           this, which has the only knowledge worthy to be called wisdom,
 32 Repub|         may be said of the love of knowledge, which is the special characteristic
 33 Repub|           The object of science is knowledge (assuming that to be the
 34 Repub|            is a particular kind of knowledge; I mean, for example, that
 35 Repub|        house-building is a kind of knowledge which is defined and ~distinguished
 36 Repub|           being supposed to have a knowledge of what is for the interest
 37 Repub|           and good action, and the knowledge which presides over it wisdom,
 38 Repub|          philosopher or a lover of knowledge, just as he who refuses
 39 Repub|            taste for every sort of knowledge and who is curious to learn
 40 Repub|           if another lead him to a knowledge of that beauty is unable
 41 Repub|           of the one who knows has knowledge, and that the mind of the
 42 Repub|          that he is welcome to any knowledge which he may have, and that
 43 Repub|          question: Does he who has knowledge know something or nothing? (
 44 Repub|             between them. ~And, as knowledge corresponded to being and
 45 Repub| intermediate between ignorance and knowledge, if there be such? ~Certainly. ~
 46 Repub|             As being the same with knowledge, or another faculty? ~Another
 47 Repub|         faculty. ~Then opinion and knowledge have to do with different
 48 Repub|           of faculties? ~Yes. ~And knowledge is relative to being and
 49 Repub|       question? Would you say that knowledge is a faculty, or in what
 50 Repub|           you place it? ~Certainly knowledge is a faculty, and the mightiest
 51 Repub|            a little while ago that knowledge is not the same as opinion? ~
 52 Repub|          between them. ~Yes. ~Then knowledge and opinion having distinct
 53 Repub|        sphere or subject-matter of knowledge, and knowledge is to know
 54 Repub|   subject-matter of knowledge, and knowledge is to know the nature of
 55 Repub|           as the subject-matter of knowledge? ~Nay, he replied, that
 56 Repub|           were saying, opinion and knowledge are distinct faculties,
 57 Repub|      faculties, then the sphere of knowledge and of opinion cannot be
 58 Repub|           is the subject-matter of knowledge, something else must be
 59 Repub|   necessary correlative; of being, knowledge? ~True, he said. ~Then opinion
 60 Repub|           neither be ignorance nor knowledge? ~That seems to be true. ~
 61 Repub|           a greater clearness than knowledge, or in a greater darkness
 62 Repub|           to you to be darker than knowledge, but lighter than ignorance? ~
 63 Repub|   corresponding faculty is neither knowledge nor ignorance, but will
 64 Repub|      opinion, and not as matter of knowledge; being the intermediate
 65 Repub|            to have opinion but not knowledge? ~That is certain. ~But
 66 Repub|            embrace the subjects of knowledge, the other those of opinion?
 67 Repub|          and indeed wanting in the knowledge of the true being of each
 68 Repub|    philosophical minds always love knowledge of a sort which shows them
 69 Repub|           desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed
 70 Repub|        infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much
 71 Repub|             that the true lover of knowledge is always striving after
 72 Repub|         until he have attained the knowledge of the true nature of every
 73 Repub|            and truth, he will have knowledge and will live and grow truly,
 74 Repub|          in all this, he calls his knowledge wisdom, and makes of it
 75 Repub|        after truth for the sake of knowledge, while they look coldly
 76 Repub|    exercised also in many kinds of knowledge, to see whether the soul
 77 Repub|         mean by the highest of all knowledge? ~You may remember, I said,
 78 Repub|            never reach the highest knowledge of all which, as we were
 79 Repub|          What, he said, is there a knowledge still higher than this-higher
 80 Repub|           you what is this highest knowledge? ~Nay, I said, ask if you
 81 Repub|        idea of good is the highest knowledge, and that all other things
 82 Repub|           without which, any other knowledge or possession of any kind
 83 Repub|           possess the good? or the knowledge of all other things if we
 84 Repub|         other things if we have no knowledge of beauty and goodness? ~
 85 Repub|       finer sort of wits say it is knowledge? ~Yes. ~And you are aware
 86 Repub|          explain what they mean by knowledge, but are obliged after all
 87 Repub|           obliged after all to say knowledge of the good? ~How ridiculous! ~
 88 Repub|         good, and then presume our knowledge of it-for the good they
 89 Repub|         the good they define to be knowledge of the good, just as if
 90 Repub|          the good will have a true knowledge of them. ~That, he said,
 91 Repub|            a guardian who has this knowledge, our State will be perfectly
 92 Repub|        principle of the good to be knowledge or pleasure, or different
 93 Repub|      latter becomes the subject of knowledge; beautiful too, as are both
 94 Repub|         too, as are both truth and knowledge, you will be right in esteeming
 95 Repub|          be not only the author of knowledge to all things known, but
 96 Repub|        opinion is to the sphere of knowledge? ~Most undoubtedly. ~Next
 97 Repub|        speak of that other sort of knowledge which reason herself attains
 98 Repub|         understand you to say that knowledge and being, which the science
 99 Repub|            is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears
100 Repub|            say that they can put a knowledge into the soul which was
101 Repub|           so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement
102 Repub|          best minds to attain that knowledge which we have already shown
103 Repub|           not inquire what sort of knowledge has the power of effecting
104 Repub|           Certainly. ~What sort of knowledge is there which would draw
105 Repub|              Then this new kind of knowledge must have an additional
106 Repub|        True. ~Then that is not the knowledge which we are seeking to
107 Repub|           kind. But what branch of knowledge is there, my dear Glaucon,
108 Repub|            a warrior should have a knowledge of arithmetic? ~Certainly
109 Repub|          own mind what branches of knowledge have this attracting power,
110 Repub|   remarkable manner. ~Then this is knowledge of the kind for which we
111 Repub|             Then this is a kind of knowledge which legislation may fitly
112 Repub|             Then you see that this knowledge may be truly called necessary,
113 Repub|       quick at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they
114 Repub|            arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures
115 Repub|       those of daily life; whereas knowledge is the real object of the
116 Repub|          What admission? ~That the knowledge at which geometry aims is
117 Repub|          at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not
118 Repub|          and in all departments of knowledge, as experience proves, anyone
119 Repub|         this as a second branch of knowledge which our youth will study? ~
120 Repub|          sublime conception of our knowledge of the things above. And
121 Repub|           but, in my opinion, that knowledge only which is of being and
122 Repub|         upward, whether his way to knowledge is by water or by land,
123 Repub|      manner more conducive to that knowledge of which we are speaking? ~
124 Repub|         with a view to that higher knowledge; their beauty is like the
125 Repub|          is a perfection which all knowledge ought to reach, and which
126 Repub|          thing of more than mortal knowledge. ~A thing, I replied, which
127 Repub|        take a reason will have the knowledge which we require of them? ~
128 Repub|        placed higher-the nature of knowledge can no further go? ~I agree,
129 Repub|        slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise,
130 Repub|           no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under
131 Repub|           that is the only kind of knowledge which takes lasting root. ~
132 Repub|          and the capacity for such knowledge is the great criterion of
133 Repub|             and in every branch of knowledge, come at last to their consummation:
134 Repub|           a long space. But to the knowledge of human fecundity and sterility
135 Repub|      contemplate and aspire to the knowledge of the unknown, whether
136 Repub|         sees that the principle of knowledge is wholly directed to the
137 Repub|        Lover of wisdom," "lover of knowledge," are titles which we may
138 Repub|      experience of the pleasure of knowledge than the philosopher has
139 Repub|        which is to be found in the knowledge of true being is known to
140 Repub|          contains true opinion and knowledge and mind and all the different
141 Repub|          the invariable partake of knowledge in the same degree as of
142 Repub|            as of essence? ~Yes, of knowledge in the same degree. ~And
143 Repub|          the company of reason and knowledge, and pursue after and win
144 Repub|          the hearers, and that the knowledge of their true nature is
145 Repub|           to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ~
146 Repub|           that he who has not this knowledge can never be a poet, we
147 Repub|         easily be made without any knowledge of the truth, because they
148 Repub|        mankind-if he had possessed knowledge, and not been a mere imitator-can
149 Repub|         whereas the user will have knowledge? ~True. ~But will the imitator
150 Repub|          opinion than he will have knowledge about the goodness or badness
151 Repub|           that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning of what
152 Repub|          leave every other kind of knowledge and seek and follow one