[...] proposes that temperance is minding your own business. Critias takes up the argument with Socrates suggesting that temperance might be the same as self-knowledge. Socrates says that if wisdom really is knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know, no one would ever make a mistake, and we would pass through life without erring. He concludes that this does not happen, and that science is impossible.
[...] proposes that temperance is minding your own business. Critias takes up the argument with Socrates suggesting that temperance might be the same as self-knowledge. Socrates says that if wisdom really is knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know, no one would ever make a mistake, and we would pass through life without erring. He concludes that this does not happen, and that science is impossible.
[...] proposes that temperance is minding your own business. Critias takes up the argument with Socrates suggesting that temperance might be the same as self-knowledge. Socrates says that if wisdom really is knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know, no one would ever make a mistake, and we would pass through life without erring. He concludes that this does not happen, and that science is impossible.
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