(...) Meno
     Part
 501 Text |            guide to correct action as knowledge; and that was the point
 502 Text |             virtue, when we said that knowledge only is the guide of right
 503 Text |               is not less useful than knowledge?~MENO: The difference, Socrates,
 504 Text |               is only that he who has knowledge will always be right; but
 505 Text |               Socrates, I wonder that knowledge should be preferred to right
 506 Text |               they have the nature of knowledge; and, in the second place,
 507 Text |              abiding. And this is why knowledge is more honourable and excellent
 508 Text |              conjecture. And yet that knowledge differs from true opinion
 509 Text |               action quite as well as knowledge?~MENO: There again, Socrates,
 510 Text |             is not a whit inferior to knowledge, or less useful in action;
 511 Text |               inferior to him who has knowledge?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And
 512 Text |            not only because they have knowledge, but because they have right
 513 Text |             opinion, and that neither knowledge nor right opinion is given
 514 Text |              If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as we thought, it
 515 Text |             the only right guides are knowledge and true opinion—these are
 516 Text |              man are true opinion and knowledge.~MENO: I think so too.~SOCRATES:
 517 Text |             taught, neither is virtue knowledge.~MENO: Clearly not.~SOCRATES:
 518 Text |          useful things, one, which is knowledge, has been set aside, and
 519 Text |            virtue was not grounded on knowledge.~MENO: That is probably
 520 Text |               SOCRATES: But if not by knowledge, the only alternative which


Parmenides
     Part
 521 Intro|             within the range of human knowledge; and you cannot disprove
 522 Intro|             Perfectly.’ ‘And absolute knowledge in the same way corresponds
 523 Intro|             and being, and particular knowledge to particular truth and
 524 Intro|             And there is a subjective knowledge which is of subjective truth,
 525 Intro|              must admit that absolute knowledge is the most exact knowledge,
 526 Intro|           knowledge is the most exact knowledge, which we must therefore
 527 Intro|                God, having this exact knowledge, can have no knowledge of
 528 Intro|          exact knowledge, can have no knowledge of human things, as we have
 529 Intro|              the other:—the gods have knowledge and authority in their world
 530 Intro|             surely, to deprive God of knowledge is monstrous.’—‘These are
 531 Intro|        existence, or are beyond human knowledge.’ ‘There I agree with you,’
 532 Intro|           more under the attribute of knowledge than we do, he was more
 533 Intro|           proposition implies at once knowledge and difference. Thus ‘one’
 534 Intro|             hereafter or formerly, or knowledge or opinion or perception
 535 Intro|      Megarians and Cynics were making knowledge impossible, he takes their ‘
 536 Intro|                and the error pervades knowledge far and wide. In the beginning
 537 Intro|              to supply in an age when knowledge was a shadow of a name only.
 538 Intro|        contradiction and the unity of knowledge are asserted; in the later
 539 Intro|               within the range of our knowledge. But into the origin of
 540 Text |              man of great ability and knowledge, and is willing to follow
 541 Text |            your meaning.~And will not knowledge—I mean absolute knowledge—
 542 Text |             knowledge—I mean absolute knowledge—answer to absolute truth?~
 543 Text |             And each kind of absolute knowledge will answer to each kind
 544 Text |          absolute being?~Yes.~But the knowledge which we have, will answer
 545 Text |               and again, each kind of knowledge which we have, will be a
 546 Text |              which we have, will be a knowledge of each kind of being which
 547 Text |               by the absolute idea of knowledge?~Yes.~And we have not got
 548 Text |              have not got the idea of knowledge?~No.~Then none of the ideas
 549 Text |             have no share in absolute knowledge?~I suppose not.~Then the
 550 Text |            you not say, that absolute knowledge, if there is such a thing,
 551 Text |              must be a far more exact knowledge than our knowledge; and
 552 Text |              exact knowledge than our knowledge; and the same of beauty
 553 Text |             participation in absolute knowledge, no one is more likely than
 554 Text |               to have this most exact knowledge?~Certainly.~But then, will
 555 Text |             will God, having absolute knowledge, have a knowledge of human
 556 Text |            absolute knowledge, have a knowledge of human things?~Why not?~
 557 Text |        perfect authority, and perfect knowledge, his authority cannot rule
 558 Text |               cannot rule us, nor his knowledge know us, or any human thing;
 559 Text |           extend to the gods, nor our knowledge know anything which is divine,
 560 Text |           Socrates, to deprive God of knowledge is monstrous.~These, Socrates,
 561 Text |          perception, nor opinion, nor knowledge of it?~Clearly not.~Then
 562 Text |               this moment opinion and knowledge and perception of the one,
 563 Text |             one, there is opinion and knowledge and perception of it?~Quite
 564 Text |              would appear, there is a knowledge of it, or the very meaning
 565 Text |              belongs to it as well as knowledge; for in speaking of the
 566 Text |           present, or future. Nor can knowledge, or opinion, or perception,


Phaedo
     Part
 567 Intro|               derived from the latent knowledge of mathematics, which may
 568 Intro|             But all men have not this knowledge, nor have any without a
 569 Intro|         sought after the pleasures of knowledge and rejected the pleasures
 570 Intro|                Is it the principle of knowledge or of goodness, or the union
 571 Intro|              adds nothing to our real knowledge, but may perhaps disguise
 572 Intro|               good, from ignorance to knowledge. To this we are led by the
 573 Intro|       indefinitely diminished; and as knowledge increases, the element of
 574 Intro|             are due to our increasing knowledge of history and of nature.
 575 Intro|             for the completion of our knowledge? May not the science of
 576 Intro|         connection with his theory of knowledge. In proportion as he succeeds
 577 Intro|           they are in their theory of knowledge.~17. Living in an age when
 578 Intro|             nothing is added to human knowledge by his ‘safe and simple
 579 Intro|               the soul is a theory of knowledge, and that in what has preceded
 580 Intro|                as about his theory of knowledge. And while we may fairly
 581 Intro|              the uncertainty of human knowledge, and only at last concedes
 582 Text |             the actual acquirement of knowledge?—is the body, if invited
 583 Text |               nearest approach to the knowledge of their several natures
 584 Text |              he attains to the purest knowledge of them who goes to each
 585 Text |              from acquiring truth and knowledge—who, if not he, is likely
 586 Text |               is likely to attain the knowledge of true being?~What you
 587 Text |            that if we would have pure knowledge of anything we must be quit
 588 Text |             the soul cannot have pure knowledge, one of two things follows—
 589 Text |             two things follows—either knowledge is not to be attained at
 590 Text |               the nearest approach to knowledge when we have the least possible
 591 Text |              which the true lovers of knowledge cannot help saying to one
 592 Text |              doctrine, Socrates, that knowledge is simply recollection,
 593 Text |             do this unless there were knowledge and right reason already
 594 Text |             incredulous as to whether knowledge is recollection.~Incredulous,
 595 Text |            what is the nature of this knowledge or recollection? I mean
 596 Text |             but of some other kind of knowledge, may not be fairly said
 597 Text |               following instance:—The knowledge of a lyre is not the same
 598 Text |           lyre is not the same as the knowledge of a man?~True.~And yet
 599 Text |              whence did we obtain our knowledge? Did we not see equalities
 600 Text |              must have had a previous knowledge of that to which the other,
 601 Text |            senses then is derived the knowledge that all sensible things
 602 Text |               way, we must have had a knowledge of absolute equality, or
 603 Text |             we must have acquired the knowledge of equality at some previous
 604 Text |               And if we acquired this knowledge before we were born, and
 605 Text |           affirm that we acquired the knowledge before birth?~We may.~But
 606 Text |            have come into life having knowledge, and shall always continue
 607 Text |               acquiring and retaining knowledge and not forgetting. Is not
 608 Text |           Simmias, just the losing of knowledge?~Quite true, Socrates.~But
 609 Text |            true, Socrates.~But if the knowledge which we acquired before
 610 Text |       learning be a recovering of the knowledge which is natural to us,
 611 Text |           follows:—either we had this knowledge at birth, and continued
 612 Text |             do you prefer? Had we the knowledge at our birth, or did we
 613 Text |             decide whether he who has knowledge will or will not be able
 614 Text |              render an account of his knowledge? What do you say?~Certainly,
 615 Text |            did our souls acquire this knowledge?—not since we were born
 616 Text |            the Gods, but the lover of knowledge only. And this is the reason,
 617 Text |                he said. The lovers of knowledge are conscious that the soul
 618 Text |          saying, and as the lovers of knowledge are well aware, philosophy,
 619 Text |         reason why the true lovers of knowledge are temperate and brave;
 620 Text |           certainty or possibility of knowledge—that a man should have lighted
 621 Text |                and lose truth and the knowledge of realities.~Yes, indeed,
 622 Text |        argument in which we said that knowledge was recollection, and hence
 623 Text |             the two propositions that knowledge is recollection, and that
 624 Text |              too. But the doctrine of knowledge and recollection has been
 625 Text |               must fear, if he has no knowledge and can give no account
 626 Text |         sought after the pleasures of knowledge; and has arrayed the soul,


Phaedrus
     Part
 627 Intro|              parents, friends, money, knowledge, and of every other good,
 628 Intro|        dwelling in the region of true knowledge. The divine mind in her
 629 Intro|              justice, temperance, and knowledge in their everlasting essence.
 630 Intro|               the recollection of the knowledge which she attained when
 631 Intro|             devoid of truth. Superior knowledge enables us to deceive another
 632 Intro|               only be attained by the knowledge of it, and that the aim
 633 Intro|               not a legitimate son of knowledge, but a bastard, and when
 634 Intro|             inspiration of beauty and knowledge, which is described as madness;
 635 Intro|             the art of persuasion nor knowledge of the truth alone, but
 636 Intro|              of persuasion founded on knowledge of truth and knowledge of
 637 Intro|             on knowledge of truth and knowledge of character; fifthly, the
 638 Intro|          theme of discourse. The true knowledge of things in heaven and
 639 Intro|           sense is found to rest on a knowledge of the natures and characters
 640 Intro|              in the Cratylus that his knowledge of philology is derived
 641 Intro|            them, were another kind of knowledge—an inner and unseen world,
 642 Intro|               to regain this ‘saving’ knowledge of the ideas, the sense
 643 Intro|                or inaccessible to the knowledge of the age. That philosophy
 644 Intro|           beyond the limits of mortal knowledge? Once more, in speaking
 645 Intro|          other. Plato, with his great knowledge of human nature, was well
 646 Intro|       desiring to persuade, without a knowledge of the truth; and secondly,
 647 Intro|              confusion of preliminary knowledge with creative power. No
 648 Intro|               politicians who have no knowledge of the truth, but only of
 649 Intro|           other famous paradox, that ‘knowledge cannot be taught.’ Socrates
 650 Intro|               draw a man off from the knowledge of himself. There is a latent
 651 Intro|           nothing to the sum of human knowledge; they are—what we please,
 652 Intro|              sense of the infinity of knowledge and of the marvel of the
 653 Intro|            most necessary of all, the knowledge of human nature, is hardly
 654 Intro|              never arrive at any true knowledge or make any real progress?
 655 Intro|               over the whole field of knowledge. It had grown ascetic on
 656 Intro|               consistency, no love of knowledge for its own sake. It did
 657 Intro|              and scale the heights of knowledge, but to go backwards and
 658 Intro|             extension of the means of knowledge over a wider area and to
 659 Text |              is, that I am a lover of knowledge, and the men who dwell in
 660 Text |            very being with which true knowledge is concerned; the colourless,
 661 Text |           nurtured upon mind and pure knowledge, and the intelligence of
 662 Text |          justice, and temperance, and knowledge absolute, not in the form
 663 Text |               men call existence, but knowledge absolute in existence absolute;
 664 Text |               boldly assert that mere knowledge of the truth will not give
 665 Text |             to speak unless he have a knowledge of philosophy. And let Phaedrus
 666 Text |          physicians by imparting this knowledge to others,’—what do you
 667 Text |              got beyond your stage of knowledge, for you only know the preliminaries
 668 Text |           natural power and add to it knowledge and practice, you will be
 669 Text |          philosophy, and attained the knowledge of Mind and the negative
 670 Text |        writing was at all better than knowledge and recollection of the
 671 Text |               mean the living word of knowledge which has a soul, and of
 672 Text |             compositions are based on knowledge of the truth, and they can


Philebus
     Part
 673 Intro|         explain, from our fragmentary knowledge of them, the relation in
 674 Intro|             of pleasure, the kinds of knowledge, the scale of goods. These
 675 Intro|             relations of pleasure and knowledge, after they have been duly
 676 Intro|             pleasure and the kinds of knowledge. (3) But still we may affirm
 677 Intro|             of pleasure and wisdom or knowledge has more of the character
 678 Intro|               of the first, wisdom or knowledge of the third class, while
 679 Intro|             of sight, hearing, smell, knowledge.~(6) The sciences are likewise
 680 Intro|             and the truest and purest knowledge.~(7) We are now able to
 681 Intro|            and wisdom; the fourth, to knowledge and true opinion; the fifth,
 682 Intro|           pleasure; (IV) the kinds of knowledge; (V) the conception of the
 683 Intro|              to different branches of knowledge. As in the Republic he supposes
 684 Intro|            broken’ of the organism of knowledge;— so in the Philebus he
 685 Intro|            and the like. The world of knowledge is always dividing more
 686 Intro|        proceed to divide pleasure and knowledge after their kinds.~III.
 687 Intro|               or is nearly allied to, knowledge. The modern philosopher
 688 Intro|              pleasures. As in art and knowledge generally, we proceed from
 689 Intro|              For all pleasure and all knowledge may be viewed either abstracted
 690 Intro|             unchangeable with that of knowledge. But when we come to view
 691 Intro|          feeling pleasure always. The knowledge which is at one time clear
 692 Intro|               pleasure and subjective knowledge in respect of permanence
 693 Intro|              doctrine, that virtue is knowledge, vice ignorance. He will
 694 Intro|              sounds of music and from knowledge. He would have done better
 695 Intro|            comparison of pleasure and knowledge is really a comparison of
 696 Intro|             Feeling is not opposed to knowledge, and in all consciousness
 697 Intro|            The most abstract kinds of knowledge are inseparable from some
 698 Intro|           more separate pleasure from knowledge in the Philebus than we
 699 Intro|          generally with the scheme of knowledge in the Sixth Book of the
 700 Intro|               between pure and impure knowledge, that the imperfection of
 701 Intro|             there is a good exceeding knowledge, exceeding essence, which,
 702 Intro|               dignity of pleasure and knowledge has been determined; but
 703 Intro|         contempt. But we have not the knowledge which would enable us to
 704 Intro|             may retort by saying that knowledge is one, but the result will
 705 Intro|               conceptions, whether of knowledge or pleasure, will spoil
 706 Intro|         divided a particular field of knowledge into classes, you may leave
 707 Intro|               when you have a similar knowledge of any other subject, you
 708 Intro|             that neither pleasure nor knowledge is the highest good, for
 709 Intro|               from the acquisition of knowledge, which in themselves are
 710 Intro|          pleasure, we pass to that of knowledge. Let us reflect that there
 711 Intro|           that there are two kinds of knowledge—the one creative or productive,
 712 Intro|            part purer or more akin to knowledge than the other. There is
 713 Intro|            natures, and declared that knowledge was more akin to the good
 714 Intro|             Republic the pleasures of knowledge are affirmed to be superior
 715 Intro|           adds a general principle to knowledge has been a benefactor to
 716 Intro|               While other branches of knowledge have made extraordinary
 717 Intro|             wealth, pleasure, virtue, knowledge, which are included under
 718 Intro|              place in the organism of knowledge.~And still there remain
 719 Intro|             human perfection,—virtue, knowledge, and right opinion.~Fourthly,
 720 Intro|             relations of pleasure and knowledge to each other and to the
 721 Intro|             It is the organization of knowledge wonderful to think of at
 722 Intro|               think of at a time when knowledge itself could hardly be said
 723 Intro|              fragmentary state of our knowledge it is impossible to bridge
 724 Intro|               fill up the void of our knowledge by conjecture: we can only
 725 Intro|          consider the backwardness of knowledge in the age of Plato, the
 726 Text |            the art of speech, but the knowledge of the number and nature
 727 Text |               true.~SOCRATES: And the knowledge which makes a man a musician
 728 Text |              of pursuit, are mind and knowledge and understanding and art,
 729 Text |              will divide pleasure and knowledge according to their kinds;
 730 Text |         neither mind, nor memory, nor knowledge, nor true opinion, you would
 731 Text |            having wisdom and mind and knowledge and memory of all things,
 732 Text |          irreverence place wisdom and knowledge and mind? And let us be
 733 Text |       question to what class mind and knowledge belong?~PROTARCHUS: You
 734 Text |              of some consciousness or knowledge, the recovery is termed
 735 Text |     associated with right opinion and knowledge, and that which is often
 736 Text |             be added the pleasures of knowledge, if no hunger of knowledge
 737 Text |            knowledge, if no hunger of knowledge and no pain caused by such
 738 Text |               if a man who is full of knowledge loses his knowledge, are
 739 Text |           full of knowledge loses his knowledge, are there not pains of
 740 Text |              grief at the loss of his knowledge.~SOCRATES: Yes, my friend,
 741 Text |               saying that the loss of knowledge is not attended with pain.~
 742 Text |          SOCRATES: These pleasures of knowledge, then, are unmixed with
 743 Text |             wish to test pleasure and knowledge in every possible way, in
 744 Text |               too sparing of mind and knowledge: let us ring their metal
 745 Text |         elements both of pleasure and knowledge may be brought up for judgment.~
 746 Text |          PROTARCHUS: Right.~SOCRATES: Knowledge has two parts,—the one productive,
 747 Text |             not one part more akin to knowledge, and the other less; and
 748 Text |               ask whether one sort of knowledge is purer than another, as
 749 Text |       clearness in different kinds of knowledge is enormous.~SOCRATES: Then
 750 Text |               has to do with all that knowledge of which we are now speaking;
 751 Text |      intelligence will admit that the knowledge which has to do with being
 752 Text |        assuming memory and wisdom and knowledge and true opinion to belong
 753 Text |                Will he have enough of knowledge if he is acquainted only
 754 Text |              a house?~PROTARCHUS: The knowledge which is only superhuman,
 755 Text |           open the door wide, and let knowledge of every sort stream in,
 756 Text |        intention; but the love of all knowledge constrained us to let all
 757 Text |              to mingle.~SOCRATES: The knowledge of the arts has been admitted
 758 Text |              no better companion than knowledge of things in general, and
 759 Text |              and likewise the perfect knowledge, if that may be, of ourselves
 760 Text |            with measure than mind and knowledge.~SOCRATES: Very good; but


Protagoras
     Part
 761 Intro|              in short, the science or knowledge of human life.’~This, as
 762 Intro|           been doubtful, whether such knowledge can be taught, if Protagoras
 763 Intro|                those who have no such knowledge and are still confident
 764 Intro|             says Socrates, courage is knowledge—an inference which Protagoras
 765 Intro|        mankind. What does he think of knowledge? Does he agree with the
 766 Intro|               the common opinion that knowledge is overcome by passion?
 767 Intro|         passion? or does he hold that knowledge is power? Protagoras agrees
 768 Intro|                Protagoras agrees that knowledge is certainly a governing
 769 Intro|           best, act contrary to their knowledge under the influence of pleasure.
 770 Intro|              mensuration is a kind of knowledge, and knowledge is thus proved
 771 Intro|              a kind of knowledge, and knowledge is thus proved once more
 772 Intro|             terrible. Courage then is knowledge, and cowardice is ignorance.
 773 Intro|              affirming that virtue is knowledge, which is the most teachable
 774 Intro|               show that virtue is not knowledge, and this is almost equivalent
 775 Intro|               to say “that wisdom and knowledge are the highest of human
 776 Intro|               the unity of virtue and knowledge as for a precious treasure;
 777 Intro|            the identity of virtue and knowledge is found to be involved.
 778 Intro|           involved. But if virtue and knowledge are one, then virtue can
 779 Intro|            and say that virtue is not knowledge, but is accompanied with
 780 Intro|               but is accompanied with knowledge; or to point out with Aristotle
 781 Intro|            the identity of virtue and knowledge would have required to be
 782 Intro|             exhibited his superficial knowledge of natural philosophy, to
 783 Intro|                 3) that virtue is the knowledge of pleasures and pains present
 784 Intro|              conception of virtue and knowledge. That virtue cannot be taught
 785 Intro|              principle is found to be knowledge. Here, as Aristotle remarks,
 786 Intro|           Further, the nature of this knowledge, which is assumed to be
 787 Intro|              which is assumed to be a knowledge of pleasures and pains,
 788 Intro|           question of the relation of knowledge to virtue, and may be regarded,
 789 Intro|        Socratic thesis that virtue is knowledge. This is an aspect of the
 790 Text |             the soul?~Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul;
 791 Text |              carry about the wares of knowledge, and make the round of the
 792 Text |              evil, you may safely buy knowledge of Protagoras or of any
 793 Text |               greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and
 794 Text |               cannot buy the wares of knowledge and carry them away in another
 795 Text |          impression that this sort of knowledge cannot be taught. And not
 796 Text |              men teach their sons the knowledge which is gained from teachers,
 797 Text |               who have no training or knowledge of them—aye, and confiscation
 798 Text |            other pursuit or branch of knowledge which may be assumed equally
 799 Text |             all other men to have the knowledge which makes a man noble
 800 Text |          other part of virtue is like knowledge, or like justice, or like
 801 Text |             when receiving wisdom and knowledge, but pleasure is of the
 802 Text |           good physician? Clearly the knowledge of the art of healing the
 803 Text |              ill is to be deprived of knowledge), but the bad man will never
 804 Text |             of this is that they have knowledge?~Yes, that is the reason.~
 805 Text |            your point: those who have knowledge are more confident than
 806 Text |      confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident
 807 Text |            are thus confident without knowledge are really not courageous,
 808 Text |              show that those who have knowledge are more courageous than
 809 Text |             they were before they had knowledge, and more courageous than
 810 Text |               than others who have no knowledge, and were then led on to
 811 Text |                the former is given by knowledge as well as by madness or
 812 Text |             reveal your opinion about knowledge, that I may know whether
 813 Text |             world are of opinion that knowledge is a principle not of strength,
 814 Text |         notion is that a man may have knowledge, and yet that the knowledge
 815 Text |           knowledge, and yet that the knowledge which is in him may be overmastered
 816 Text |           perhaps by fear,—just as if knowledge were a slave, and might
 817 Text |            view? or do you think that knowledge is a noble and commanding
 818 Text |         anything which is contrary to knowledge, but that wisdom will have
 819 Text |          bound to say that wisdom and knowledge are the highest of human
 820 Text |              when men act contrary to knowledge they are overcome by pain,
 821 Text |              odd and even, and on the knowledge of when a man ought to choose
 822 Text |               of our lives? Would not knowledge?—a knowledge of measuring,
 823 Text |                Would not knowledge?—a knowledge of measuring, when the question
 824 Text |              excess and defect, and a knowledge of number, when the question
 825 Text |             was nothing mightier than knowledge, and that knowledge, in
 826 Text |              than knowledge, and that knowledge, in whatever existing, must
 827 Text |               even over a man who has knowledge; and we refused to allow
 828 Text |              and evil, from defect of knowledge; and you admitted further,
 829 Text |               not only from defect of knowledge in general, but of that
 830 Text |                but of that particular knowledge which is called measuring.
 831 Text |             act which is done without knowledge is done in ignorance. This,
 832 Text |    reluctantly nodded assent.~And the knowledge of that which is and is
 833 Text |             prove that all things are knowledge, including justice, and
 834 Text |             if virtue were other than knowledge, as Protagoras attempted
 835 Text |             but if virtue is entirely knowledge, as you are seeking to show,
 836 Text |               be anything rather than knowledge; and if this is true, it


The Republic
     Book
 837 1    |              friend, do not keep your knowledge to yourself; we are a large
 838 1    |       non-physician? ~Yes. ~And about knowledge and ignorance in general;
 839 1    |            think that any man who has knowledge ever would wish to have
 840 1    |              than another man who has knowledge. Would he not rather say
 841 2    |               class of goods, such as knowledge, sight, health, which are
 842 2    |        injustice, or who has attained knowledge of the truth-but no other
 843 2    |        sakes-like sight or hearing or knowledge or health, or any other
 844 2    |               dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance? ~Most assuredly. ~
 845 2    |              be a lover of wisdom and knowledge? ~That we may safely affirm. ~
 846 3    |            one another, ~"Without the knowledge of their parents" ~or that
 847 3    |            the rhythm; that degree of knowledge I may presuppose? ~Yes,
 848 3    |               and study giving us the knowledge of both: Exactly - Even
 849 3    |                have combined with the knowledge of their art the greatest
 850 3    |             nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not
 851 3    |               by time, will acquire a knowledge both of virtue and vice:
 852 4    |          counsel is clearly a kind of knowledge, for not by ignorance, but
 853 4    |              not by ignorance, but by knowledge, do men counsel well? ~Clearly. ~
 854 4    |            Clearly. ~And the kinds of knowledge in a State are many and
 855 4    |              Of course. ~There is the knowledge of the carpenter; but is
 856 4    |               but is that the sort of knowledge which gives a city the title
 857 4    |             wise because possessing a knowledge which counsels for the best
 858 4    |              not. ~Nor by reason of a knowledge which advises about brazen
 859 4    |          possessing any other similar knowledge? ~Not by reason of any of
 860 4    |                Nor yet by reason of a knowledge which cultivates the earth;
 861 4    |              I said, and is there any knowledge in our recently founded
 862 4    |       certainly is. ~And what is this knowledge, and among whom is it found?
 863 4    |            found? I asked. ~It is the knowledge of the guardians, he replied,
 864 4    |            possession of this sort of knowledge? ~The name of good in counsel
 865 4    |            profession of some kind of knowledge? ~Much the smallest. ~And
 866 4    |             part or class, and of the knowledge which resides in this presiding
 867 4    |              this, which has the only knowledge worthy to be called wisdom,
 868 4    |            may be said of the love of knowledge, which is the special characteristic
 869 4    |              The object of science is knowledge (assuming that to be the
 870 4    |               is a particular kind of knowledge; I mean, for example, that
 871 4    |           house-building is a kind of knowledge which is defined and ~distinguished
 872 4    |              being supposed to have a knowledge of what is for the interest
 873 4    |              and good action, and the knowledge which presides over it wisdom,
 874 5    |             philosopher or a lover of knowledge, just as he who refuses
 875 5    |               taste for every sort of knowledge and who is curious to learn
 876 5    |              if another lead him to a knowledge of that beauty is unable
 877 5    |              of the one who knows has knowledge, and that the mind of the
 878 5    |             that he is welcome to any knowledge which he may have, and that
 879 5    |             question: Does he who has knowledge know something or nothing? (
 880 5    |                between them. ~And, as knowledge corresponded to being and
 881 5    |    intermediate between ignorance and knowledge, if there be such? ~Certainly. ~
 882 5    |                As being the same with knowledge, or another faculty? ~Another
 883 5    |            faculty. ~Then opinion and knowledge have to do with different
 884 5    |              of faculties? ~Yes. ~And knowledge is relative to being and
 885 5    |          question? Would you say that knowledge is a faculty, or in what
 886 5    |              you place it? ~Certainly knowledge is a faculty, and the mightiest
 887 5    |               a little while ago that knowledge is not the same as opinion? ~
 888 5    |             between them. ~Yes. ~Then knowledge and opinion having distinct
 889 5    |           sphere or subject-matter of knowledge, and knowledge is to know
 890 5    |      subject-matter of knowledge, and knowledge is to know the nature of
 891 5    |              as the subject-matter of knowledge? ~Nay, he replied, that
 892 5    |              were saying, opinion and knowledge are distinct faculties,
 893 5    |         faculties, then the sphere of knowledge and of opinion cannot be
 894 5    |              is the subject-matter of knowledge, something else must be
 895 5    |      necessary correlative; of being, knowledge? ~True, he said. ~Then opinion
 896 5    |              neither be ignorance nor knowledge? ~That seems to be true. ~
 897 5    |              a greater clearness than knowledge, or in a greater darkness
 898 5    |              to you to be darker than knowledge, but lighter than ignorance? ~
 899 5    |      corresponding faculty is neither knowledge nor ignorance, but will
 900 5    |         opinion, and not as matter of knowledge; being the intermediate
 901 5    |               to have opinion but not knowledge? ~That is certain. ~But
 902 5    |               embrace the subjects of knowledge, the other those of opinion?
 903 6    |             and indeed wanting in the knowledge of the true being of each
 904 6    |       philosophical minds always love knowledge of a sort which shows them
 905 6    |              desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed
 906 6    |           infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much
 907 6    |                that the true lover of knowledge is always striving after
 908 6    |            until he have attained the knowledge of the true nature of every
 909 6    |               and truth, he will have knowledge and will live and grow truly,
 910 6    |             in all this, he calls his knowledge wisdom, and makes of it
 911 6    |           after truth for the sake of knowledge, while they look coldly
 912 6    |       exercised also in many kinds of knowledge, to see whether the soul
 913 6    |            mean by the highest of all knowledge? ~You may remember, I said,
 914 6    |               never reach the highest knowledge of all which, as we were
 915 6    |             What, he said, is there a knowledge still higher than this-higher
 916 6    |              you what is this highest knowledge? ~Nay, I said, ask if you
 917 6    |           idea of good is the highest knowledge, and that all other things
 918 6    |              without which, any other knowledge or possession of any kind
 919 6    |              possess the good? or the knowledge of all other things if we
 920 6    |            other things if we have no knowledge of beauty and goodness? ~
 921 6    |          finer sort of wits say it is knowledge? ~Yes. ~And you are aware
 922 6    |             explain what they mean by knowledge, but are obliged after all
 923 6    |              obliged after all to say knowledge of the good? ~How ridiculous! ~
 924 6    |            good, and then presume our knowledge of it-for the good they
 925 6    |            the good they define to be knowledge of the good, just as if
 926 6    |             the good will have a true knowledge of them. ~That, he said,
 927 6    |               a guardian who has this knowledge, our State will be perfectly
 928 6    |           principle of the good to be knowledge or pleasure, or different
 929 6    |         latter becomes the subject of knowledge; beautiful too, as are both
 930 6    |            too, as are both truth and knowledge, you will be right in esteeming
 931 6    |             be not only the author of knowledge to all things known, but
 932 6    |           opinion is to the sphere of knowledge? ~Most undoubtedly. ~Next
 933 6    |           speak of that other sort of knowledge which reason herself attains
 934 6    |            understand you to say that knowledge and being, which the science
 935 7    |               is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears
 936 7    |               say that they can put a knowledge into the soul which was
 937 7    |              so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement
 938 7    |             best minds to attain that knowledge which we have already shown
 939 7    |              not inquire what sort of knowledge has the power of effecting
 940 7    |              Certainly. ~What sort of knowledge is there which would draw
 941 7    |                 Then this new kind of knowledge must have an additional
 942 7    |           True. ~Then that is not the knowledge which we are seeking to
 943 7    |              kind. But what branch of knowledge is there, my dear Glaucon,
 944 7    |               a warrior should have a knowledge of arithmetic? ~Certainly
 945 7    |             own mind what branches of knowledge have this attracting power,
 946 7    |      remarkable manner. ~Then this is knowledge of the kind for which we
 947 7    |                Then this is a kind of knowledge which legislation may fitly
 948 7    |                Then you see that this knowledge may be truly called necessary,
 949 7    |          quick at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they
 950 7    |               arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures
 951 7    |          those of daily life; whereas knowledge is the real object of the
 952 7    |             What admission? ~That the knowledge at which geometry aims is
 953 7    |             at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not
 954 7    |             and in all departments of knowledge, as experience proves, anyone
 955 7    |            this as a second branch of knowledge which our youth will study? ~
 956 7    |             sublime conception of our knowledge of the things above. And
 957 7    |              but, in my opinion, that knowledge only which is of being and
 958 7    |            upward, whether his way to knowledge is by water or by land,
 959 7    |         manner more conducive to that knowledge of which we are speaking? ~
 960 7    |            with a view to that higher knowledge; their beauty is like the
 961 7    |             is a perfection which all knowledge ought to reach, and which
 962 7    |             thing of more than mortal knowledge. ~A thing, I replied, which
 963 7    |           take a reason will have the knowledge which we require of them? ~
 964 7    |           placed higher-the nature of knowledge can no further go? ~I agree,
 965 7    |           slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise,
 966 7    |              no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under
 967 7    |              that is the only kind of knowledge which takes lasting root. ~
 968 7    |             and the capacity for such knowledge is the great criterion of
 969 7    |                and in every branch of knowledge, come at last to their consummation:
 970 8    |              a long space. But to the knowledge of human fecundity and sterility
 971 9    |         contemplate and aspire to the knowledge of the unknown, whether
 972 9    |            sees that the principle of knowledge is wholly directed to the
 973 9    |           Lover of wisdom," "lover of knowledge," are titles which we may
 974 9    |         experience of the pleasure of knowledge than the philosopher has
 975 9    |           which is to be found in the knowledge of true being is known to
 976 9    |             contains true opinion and knowledge and mind and all the different
 977 9    |             the invariable partake of knowledge in the same degree as of
 978 9    |               as of essence? ~Yes, of knowledge in the same degree. ~And
 979 9    |             the company of reason and knowledge, and pursue after and win
 980 10   |             the hearers, and that the knowledge of their true nature is
 981 10   |              to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ~
 982 10   |              that he who has not this knowledge can never be a poet, we
 983 10   |            easily be made without any knowledge of the truth, because they
 984 10   |           mankind-if he had possessed knowledge, and not been a mere imitator-can
 985 10   |            whereas the user will have knowledge? ~True. ~But will the imitator
 986 10   |             opinion than he will have knowledge about the goodness or badness
 987 10   |              that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning of what
 988 10   |             leave every other kind of knowledge and seek and follow one


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 989 Text |           ought not without their own knowledge?~ALCIBIADES: Exactly.~SOCRATES:
 990 Text |               possibly be better than knowledge for any person in any conceivable
 991 Text |               if unaccompanied by the knowledge of the best, will more often
 992 Text |              has at the same time the knowledge of the best course of action:—
 993 Text |              one of them all had this knowledge of the best, and there was
 994 Text |       possession of any other kind of knowledge was more likely to injure
 995 Text |                unless he had also the knowledge of the best?~ALCIBIADES:
 996 Text |              must hold firmly to this knowledge, just as the sick man clings
 997 Text |         anything else, not having the knowledge of the best, so much the
 998 Text |              and does not possess the knowledge of the best, but is under


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 999 Text |          conjecture but from positive knowledge. For when I made my first
1000 Text |       teaching as he did all forms of knowledge, listened to me with an