[6]
Cicero1 distinguishes two kinds,
the one concerned with knowledge, the other with
action. Thus “Is the world governed by
[p. 401]
providence?” is a question of knowledge, while “Should
we enter politics?” is a question of action. The
first involves three questions, whether a thing
is, what it is, and of what nature: for all these
things may be unknown: the second involves two,
how to obtain power and how to use it.
1 Top. 81; Part. Or. xviii. 62.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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