ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: But when people think that they do not know, they entrust their business to others?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: And so there is a class of ignorant persons who do not make mistakes in life, because they trust others about things of which they are ignorant?
ALCIBIADES: True.
SOCRATES: Who, then, are the persons who make mistakes? They cannot, of course, be those who know?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: But if neither those who know, nor those who know that they do not know, make mistakes, there remain those only who do not know and think that they know.
ALCIBIADES: Yes, only those.
SOCRATES: Then this is ignorance of the disgraceful sort which is mischievous?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
Ascribed to Plato - Alcibiades I (Possibly 390s BC)
3 comments:
But what on earth have the three portraits above the article to do with the subject? It's so hard for me to guess.
Do you remember Jimmy Edwards in "Whacko!"? When he's accused of spending school funds on 50 crates of Pale Ale he looks at the invoice and says, "No, that's Socrates by Pali Ali".
Would the telly-watching classes even see the joke nowadays?
Tammly - and they are just a small selection.
dearieme - ha ha, I do remember Whacko! The joke rings a very faint bell too, but no - the telly-watching classes wouldn't see the joke now.
Post a Comment