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Very likely, I said; but I remain as stupid as ever; for still I fail to
comprehend how this knowing what you know and do not know is the same
as the knowledge of self.
What do you mean? he said.
This is what I mean, I replied: I will admit that there is a science of science;
—can this do more than determine that of two things one is and the other is
not science or knowledge?
No, just that.
But is knowledge or want of knowledge of health the same as knowledge or
want of knowledge of justice?
Certainly not.
The one is medicine, and the other is politics; whereas that of which we are
speaking is knowledge pure and simple.
Very true.
And if a man knows only, and has only knowledge of knowledge, and has
no further knowledge of health and justice, the probability is that he will only
know that he knows something, and has a certain knowledge, whether
concerning himself or other men.
True.
Then how will this knowledge or science teach him to know what he
knows? Say that he knows health;—not wisdom or temperance, but the art of
medicine has taught it to him;—and he has learned harmony from the art of
music, and building from the art of building,—neither, from wisdom or
temperance: and the same of other things.
That is evident.
How will wisdom, regarded only as a knowledge of knowledge or science
of science, ever teach him that he knows health, or that he knows building?
It is impossible.
Then he who is ignorant of these things will only know that he knows, but
not what he knows?
True.
Then wisdom or being wise appears to be not the knowledge of the things
which we do or do not know, but only the knowledge that we know or do not
know?
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The Complete Plato
- Titel
- The Complete Plato
- Autor
- Plato
- Datum
- ~347 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
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- PD
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- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
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- 1612
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- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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