Plato, Meno, section 97a

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[97a] this must needs be so?

Meno
Yes.

Socrates
And in thinking that they will be useful if they give us right guidance in conduct: here also, I suppose, our admission was correct?

Meno
Yes.

Socrates
But our assertion that it is impossible to give right guidance unless one has knowledge looks very like a mistake.

Meno
What do you mean by that?

Socrates
I will tell you. If a man knew the way to Larisa, or any other place you please, and walked there and led others, would he not give right and good guidance?

Meno
Certainly.

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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