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the
receiving of wages does not accrue to each from his own art. But if we are
to consider it 'precisely' medicine produces health but the fee-earning art
the pay, and architecture a house but the fee-earning art accompanying it
the fee, and so with all the others, each performs its own task and benefits
that over which it is set, but unless pay is added to it is there any
benefit which the craftsman receives from the craft?”
“Apparently not,” he said. “Does he then
bestow no benefit either
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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