The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|       makes no attempt to veil his ignorance in mythology and figures
  2 Text |          their knowledge nor their ignorance, or like them in both; and
  3 Text |          age, in such darkness and ignorance as not to know that if a
  4 Text |         greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the
  5 Text |            a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that


Charmides
    Part
  6 Text |         knowledge of knowledge and ignorance, has this advantage:—that
  7 Text |            would watch and prevent ignorance from intruding on us. But
  8 Text |           of other sciences, or of ignorance, but of good and evil: and
  9 Text |      knowledge of knowledge and of ignorance, and of nothing else?~That


Cratylus
    Part
 10 Intro|         with his own profession of ignorance. Hence his ridicule of the
 11 Text |             only arises from their ignorance of the nature of names.
 12 Text |            will, implies error and ignorance; the idea is taken from
 13 Text |         words. And yet any sort of ignorance of first or primitive names
 14 Text |        primitive names involves an ignorance of secondary words; for


Critias
    Part
 15 Text |         the inexperience and utter ignorance of his hearers about any


Euthydemus
    Part
 16 Intro|      wisdom are the only good, and ignorance and folly the only evil.
 17 Intro|            no such thing as error, ignorance, falsehood? Then what are
 18 Text |   knowledge: under the guidance of ignorance, they are greater evils
 19 Text |       wisdom is the only good, and ignorance the only evil?~He assented.~
 20 Text |          there is no such thing as ignorance, or men who are ignorant;
 21 Text |           are ignorant; for is not ignorance, if there be such a thing,
 22 Text |      falsehood or false opinion or ignorance, there can be no such thing
 23 Text |           Again I replied, Through ignorance I have answered too much,


Euthyphro
    Part
 24 Intro|        trial, and convince them of ignorance in that very matter touching
 25 Text |           of which the world is in ignorance.~SOCRATES: And do you really
 26 Text |            I indulged only through ignorance, and that now I am about


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 27 Pre  |          the doctrine that vice is ignorance, traces of a Platonic authorship.
 28 Intro|     leading him to confess his own ignorance.~But he is not too old to
 29 Intro|    consciousness not of sin but of ignorance. Self-humiliation is the
 30 Intro|            substitute the sense of ignorance for the consciousness of
 31 Text |            in a state of conscious ignorance and enquiry? Or did you
 32 Text |            to be attributed to the ignorance which has conceit of knowledge?~
 33 Text |             SOCRATES: Then this is ignorance of the disgraceful sort
 34 Text |          friend, you are wedded to ignorance of the most disgraceful
 35 Text |           of which the other is in ignorance?~ALCIBIADES: Impossible.~
 36 Text |          and being in darkness and ignorance of yourselves, you will


Gorgias
    Part
 37 Intro|       ironically attributes to his ignorance of the manner in which a
 38 Intro|      ridiculous. The profession of ignorance reminds us of the earlier
 39 Intro|           to be ignorant, and this ignorance of his is regarded by Gorgias
 40 Intro|         from the shameful state of ignorance and uncertainty in which
 41 Intro|   consequences of actions, and the ignorance of men in regard to them,
 42 Intro|        they must acknowledge their ignorance to themselves; if they are
 43 Text |   knowledge can be nobler? or what ignorance more disgraceful than this?
 44 Text |           would call injustice and ignorance and cowardice, and the like?~
 45 Text |            intentionally, but from ignorance. Do not then desist from


Laches
    Part
 46 Intro|            of Delium, are still in ignorance of the nature of courage.
 47 Text |           of having displayed your ignorance of the nature of courage,


Laws
    Book
 48 1    |   influence of anger, love, pride, ignorance, avarice, cowardice? or
 49 3    |            their whole design, nor ignorance of military matters, either
 50 3    |            and especially to their ignorance of the most important human
 51 3    |            I say that the greatest ignorance was the ruin of the Dorian
 52 3    |             and that now, as then, ignorance is ruin. And if this be
 53 3    |       wisdom in states, and banish ignorance to the utmost of his power.~
 54 3    |        what is really the greatest ignorance. I should like to know whether
 55 3    |        Athenian. That the greatest ignorance is when a man hates that
 56 3    |           in my opinion, the worst ignorance; and also the greatest,
 57 3    |       these cases I term the worst ignorance, whether in individuals
 58 3    |            very different from the ignorance of handicraftsmen.~Cleinias.
 59 3    |            The probability is that ignorance will be a disorder especially
 60 3    |            we assert, the greatest ignorance, and utterly overthrew the
 61 5    |            to fancy that their own ignorance is wisdom, and thus we who
 62 5    |      desire them only through some ignorance and inexperience of the
 63 5    |           their lives, either from ignorance, or from want of self–control,
 64 5    |         not light but darkness and ignorance of each other’s characters
 65 7    |           order that he may not in ignorance do or say anything which
 66 7    |          be afraid of our habitual ignorance of the subject: there is
 67 7    |       themselves badly. For entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme
 68 7    |          free us from that natural ignorance of all these things which
 69 7    |             Cleinias. What kind of ignorance do you mean?~Athenian. O
 70 7    |        heard with amazement of our ignorance in these matters; to me
 71 8    |    speaking of? Is this due to the ignorance of mankind and their legislators?~
 72 8    |            slave, takes of them in ignorance, let the slave be beaten,
 73 9    |           A man may truly say that ignorance is a third cause of crimes.
 74 9    |           a third cause of crimes. Ignorance, however, may be conveniently
 75 9    |         two sorts: there is simple ignorance, which is the source of
 76 9    |       lighter offences, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by
 77 9    |       nothing. This second kind of ignorance, when possessed of power
 78 9    |            and another inferior to ignorance.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
 79 10   |            A very grievous sort of ignorance which is imagined to be
 80 11   |            the act which he in his ignorance imposes upon them.~Cleinias.
 81 12   |            hand, a conversion from ignorance and intemperance, and in


Lysis
    Part
 82 Intro|         yet not unwise, but he has ignorance accidentally clinging to
 83 Text |          not yet hardened in their ignorance, or void of understanding,


Menexenus
    Part
 84 Pre  |          the doctrine that vice is ignorance, traces of a Platonic authorship.


Meno
    Part
 85 Intro|           him conscious of his own ignorance. He has had the ‘torpedo’
 86 Intro|           only desire evil through ignorance; (6) the experiment of eliciting
 87 Intro|         the better for knowing his ignorance.~The character of Meno,
 88 Text |          better off in knowing his ignorance?~MENO: I think that he is.~
 89 Text |            will wish to remedy his ignorance, but then he would have
 90 Text |       ANYTUS: Yes, by Zeus, and of ignorance too.~SOCRATES: Very good.
 91 Text |    SOCRATES: I too speak rather in ignorance; I only conjecture. And


Parmenides
    Part
 92 Intro|          logic, and to the general ignorance of the ancients respecting
 93 Intro|     Philebus, is really due to our ignorance of the mind of the age.


Phaedo
    Part
 94 Intro|           may perhaps disguise our ignorance. The truest conception which
 95 Intro|            from evil to good, from ignorance to knowledge. To this we
 96 Intro|            is another name for our ignorance of the laws of nature. There
 97 Text |          the mire of every sort of ignorance; and by reason of lust had
 98 Text |           the same cause, which is ignorance of the world. Misanthropy
 99 Text |          with lamentations, and my ignorance will not last, but will


Phaedrus
    Part
100 Intro|           It was lost in doubt and ignorance. It rested upon tradition
101 Text |       concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be
102 Text |           man to learn to speak in ignorance of the truth! Whatever my
103 Text |         cannot help fancying in my ignorance that he wrote off boldly


Philebus
    Part
104 Intro|          source of perplexity. Our ignorance of the opinions which Plato
105 Intro|          evil, with pleasure, with ignorance, and which in the scale
106 Intro|          virtue is knowledge, vice ignorance. He will allow of no distinction
107 Intro|          others with falsehood and ignorance. Let us endeavour to analyze
108 Intro| misfortunes of others? ‘True.’ And ignorance is a misfortune? ‘Certainly.’
109 Intro|        Certainly.’ And one form of ignorance is self-conceit—a man may
110 Intro|        others, and laughs at their ignorance of themselves. But Plato
111 Intro|        only make allowance for our ignorance.~There are several passages
112 Text |          of us a state of infinite ignorance; and he who never looks
113 Text |           will, but either through ignorance or from some unhappy necessity.~
114 Text |      associated with falsehood and ignorance?~PROTARCHUS: There must
115 Text |           Certainly.~SOCRATES: And ignorance, and what is termed clownishness,
116 Text |            not three ways in which ignorance of self may be shown?~PROTARCHUS:
117 Text |         strong and formidable; for ignorance in the powerul is hateful
118 Text |          in fiction, but powerless ignorance may be reckoned, and in
119 Text |      SOCRATES: Did we not say that ignorance was always an evil?~PROTARCHUS:
120 Text |            we not acknowledge this ignorance of theirs to be a misfortune?~


Protagoras
    Part
121 Intro|       principle of human life, and ignorance the origin of all evil:
122 Intro|           to the less, except from ignorance. The argument is drawn out
123 Intro|            the good except through ignorance. This explains why cowards
124 Intro|        knowledge, and cowardice is ignorance. And the five virtues, which
125 Text |        sons taught lesser matters, ignorance of which does not involve
126 Text |       greater things, of which the ignorance may cause death and exile
127 Text |          is twitting Pittacus with ignorance of the use of terms, which
128 Text |          and at the time answered ‘Ignorance,’ you would have laughed
129 Text |       without knowledge is done in ignorance. This, therefore, is the
130 Text |       being overcome by pleasure; —ignorance, and that the greatest.
131 Text |         they are the physicians of ignorance; but you, who are under
132 Text |           mistaken impression that ignorance is not the cause, and that
133 Text |           man to himself is merely ignorance, as the superiority of a
134 Text |           all assented.~And is not ignorance the having a false opinion
135 Text |      dangers, has been shown to be ignorance.~He assented.~And yet the
136 Text |           confidences originate in ignorance and uninstructedness?~True,
137 Text |           be cowards through their ignorance of dangers?~Assuredly, he
138 Text |          said.~And because of that ignorance they are cowards?~He assented.~
139 Text |           again assented.~Then the ignorance of what is and is not dangerous
140 Text |          dangers is opposed to the ignorance of them?~To that again he
141 Text |          he nodded assent.~And the ignorance of them is cowardice?~To
142 Text |     courage, and is opposed to the ignorance of these things?~At this


The Republic
    Book
143 1    |            And about knowledge and ignorance in general; see whether
144 1    |             and injustice vice and ignorance, I proceeded to another
145 1    |         injustice, if injustice is ignorance; this can no longer be questioned
146 2    |          the test of knowledge and ignorance? ~Most assuredly. ~And is
147 2    |           just now remarking, this ignorance in the soul of him who is
148 3    |           omission arose, not from ignorance or inexperience of such
149 3    |       dealing; and he lives in all ignorance and evil conditions, and
150 4    |           of knowledge, for not by ignorance, but by knowledge, do men
151 4    |     opinion which presides over it ignorance. ~You have said the exact
152 4    |   intemperance, and cowardice, and ignorance, and every form of vice? ~
153 5    |          corresponded to being and ignorance of necessity to not-being,
154 5    | corresponding intermediate between ignorance and knowledge, if there
155 5    |     nothing? ~True. ~Of not-being, ignorance was assumed to be the necessary
156 5    |           can therefore neither be ignorance nor knowledge? ~That seems
157 5    |            a greater darkness than ignorance? ~In neither. ~Then I suppose
158 5    |        knowledge, but lighter than ignorance? ~Both; and in no small
159 5    |           is neither knowledge nor ignorance, but will be found in the
160 6    |            reproaching us with our ignorance of the good, and then presume
161 6    |           to be in the darkness of ignorance? ~Certainly not, he said. ~
162 7    |       swinish beast in the mire of ignorance, and has no shame at being
163 8    |            own accord, but through ignorance, and because they are deceived
164 9    |        that would arise out of his ignorance of the true upper and middle
165 9    |           bodily state? ~Yes. ~And ignorance and folly are inanitions
166 9    |        shadow of Helen at Troy, in ignorance of the truth. ~Something
167 10   |            nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ~Most true. ~
168 10   |           intemperance, cowardice, ignorance. ~But does any of these


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
169 Text |         many are the ills of which ignorance is the cause, since, as
170 Text |           as would appear, through ignorance we not only do, but what
171 Text |          we have no right to blame ignorance thus rashly, unless we can
172 Text |             unless we can add what ignorance we mean and of what, and
173 Text |   ALCIBIADES: How do you mean? Can ignorance possibly be better than
174 Text |     ALCIBIADES: No.~SOCRATES: That ignorance is bad then, it would appear,
175 Text |        ALCIBIADES: True.~SOCRATES: Ignorance, then, is better for those
176 Text |       persons in certain cases the ignorance of some things is a good


The Seventh Letter
    Part
177 Text |          recklessness issuing from ignorance, the seed from which all
178 Text |      brought them into being. This ignorance it was which in that second


The Sophist
    Part
179 Intro|            his omniscience, in his ignorance of himself, in his arts
180 Intro|             The latter arises from ignorance, and no one is voluntarily
181 Intro|           is voluntarily ignorant; ignorance is only the aberration of
182 Intro| instruction in the arts) cures the ignorance of the soul. Again, ignorance
183 Intro|      ignorance of the soul. Again, ignorance is twofold, simple ignorance,
184 Intro|       ignorance is twofold, simple ignorance, and ignorance having the
185 Intro|     twofold, simple ignorance, and ignorance having the conceit of knowledge.
186 Intro|    proceeds upon a notion that all ignorance is involuntary. The latter
187 Intro|            know, but disguises his ignorance. And the last may be either
188 Intro|           circle is in the mire of ignorance and ‘logical impurity’:
189 Intro|        when he sees the misery and ignorance of mankind he is convinced
190 Text |          forms unrecognized by the ignorance of men, and they ‘hover
191 Text |         not.~STRANGER: And what is ignorance but the aberration of a
192 Text |         the other, which they call ignorance, and which, because existing
193 Text |           disease in the soul, and ignorance, of which there are all
194 Text |            of the various kinds of ignorance, may not instruction be
195 Text |      discover a line which divides ignorance into two halves. For a division
196 Text |          halves. For a division of ignorance into two parts will certainly
197 Text |            to the two divisions of ignorance.~THEAETETUS: Well, and do
198 Text |         very large and bad sort of ignorance which is quite separate,
199 Text |         against all other sorts of ignorance put together.~THEAETETUS:
200 Text |           mistaken, is the kind of ignorance which specially earns the
201 Text |            the conclusion that all ignorance is involuntary, and that
202 Text |        that nothing can exceed our ignorance, and yet we fancy that we
203 Text |            than that which divides ignorance from knowledge?~THEAETETUS:


The Statesman
    Part
204 Intro|          of law, and is blind with ignorance and passion, he is called
205 Intro|           wallowing in the mire of ignorance. The rest of the citizens
206 Text |            in reality appetite and ignorance are the motives of the imitation,
207 Text |         who have the worst sort of ignorance of the highest truths—I
208 Text |         those who are wallowing in ignorance and baseness she bows under


The Symposium
    Part
209 Intro|            he is in a mean between ignorance and knowledge:—in this he
210 Intro|           accustomed profession of ignorance (compare Menex.). Even his
211 Text |            promise which I made in ignorance, and which (as Euripides
212 Text |            mean between wisdom and ignorance?’ ‘And what may that be?’
213 Text |       devoid of reason? nor again, ignorance, for neither can ignorance
214 Text |         ignorance, for neither can ignorance attain the truth), but is
215 Text |            which is a mean between ignorance and wisdom.’ ‘Quite true,’
216 Text |            he is in a mean between ignorance and knowledge. The truth
217 Text |          For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither
218 Text |          already, Diotima, that my ignorance is the reason why I come


Theaetetus
    Part
219 Intro|         the constant profession of ignorance on the part of Socrates,
220 Intro|        they conscious of their own ignorance; for they do not practise
221 Intro|            should reflect that his ignorance makes his condition worse
222 Intro|          and this is falsehood and ignorance. Error, then, is a confusion
223 Intro|         well might we suppose that ignorance could make a man know, or
224 Intro|            mock birds, or forms of ignorance, and we put forth our hands
225 Intro|          forth our hands and grasp ignorance, when we are intending to
226 Intro|         knowledge and the forms of ignorance imagine one to be the other?
227 Intro|            existence. But error or ignorance is essentially negative—
228 Intro|   therefore is very different from ignorance. Of the language learnt
229 Text |         that many of them in their ignorance, either in their self-conceit
230 Text |            although from habit and ignorance we are compelled even in
231 Text |           all this is implied that ignorance and wisdom exist among them,
232 Text |            to be true thought, and ignorance to be false opinion.~THEODORUS:
233 Text |     Neither is he conscious of his ignorance. For he does not hold aloof
234 Text |        true wisdom and virtue, and ignorance of this is manifest folly
235 Text |          know both or when I am in ignorance of both, or when I know
236 Text |            knows, not by reason of ignorance, but by reason of his own
237 Text |           might as well argue that ignorance may make a man know, and
238 Text |        ought to have been forms of ignorance as well, flying about together
239 Text |            and sometimes a form of ignorance; and thus he would have
240 Text |          have a false opinion from ignorance, but a true one from knowledge,
241 Text |     according to you, he who takes ignorance will have a false opinion—
242 Text |         captured knowledge and not ignorance?~THEAETETUS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
243 Text |            a man knows the form of ignorance and the form of knowledge,


Timaeus
    Part
244 Intro|         truly feels the lamentable ignorance prevailing in his own age.~
245 Intro|             one madness, the other ignorance, and they may be justly
246 Intro|          in return for their utter ignorance, and caused them to respire
247 Intro|         from Socrates that vice is ignorance, and suddenly the doctrine
248 Intro|           work, in dwelling on the ignorance of anatomy displayed by
249 Text |         kinds; to wit, madness and ignorance. In whatever state a man
250 Text |            and forgetful, engender ignorance, which is the greatest of
251 Text |     punishment of their outlandish ignorance. These are the laws by which