Plato, Cratylus, section 416d

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[416d]

Socrates
Does not the medical power perform medical works and the power of carpentry works of carpentry? Do you agree to that?

Hermogenes
I agree.

Socrates
And the beautiful performs beautiful works?

Hermogenes
It must do so.

Socrates
And the beautiful is, we say, intellect?

Hermogenes
Certainly.

Socrates
Then this name, the beautiful, is rightly given to mind, since it accomplishes the works which we call beautiful and in which we delight.

Hermogenes
Evidently.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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