Plato, Gorgias, section 460b

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[460b]

Socrates
Well now, a man who has learnt building is a builder, is he not?

Gorgias
Yes.

Socrates
And he who has learnt music, a musician?

Gorgias
Yes.

Socrates
Then he who has learnt medicine is a medical man, and so on with the rest on the same principle; anyone who has learnt a certain art has the qualification acquired by his particular knowledge?

Gorgias
Certainly.

Socrates
And so, on this principle, he who has learnt what is just is just?

Gorgias
Absolutely, I presume.

Socrates
And the just man, I suppose, does what is just.

Gorgias
Yes.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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