ALCIBIADES (I) by Plato - Complete text

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Soc.: And yet those whom you thus allow to be ignorant are the teachers to whom you are appealing.

Alc.: Very true.

Soc.: But how are you ever likely to know the nature of justice and injustice, about which you are so perplexed, if you have neither learned them of others nor discovered them yourself?

Alc.: From what you say, I suppose not.

Soc.: See, again, how inaccurately you speak, Alcibiades!

Alc.: In what respect?

Soc.: In saying that I say so.

Alc.: Why, did you not say that I know nothing of the just and unjust?

Soc.: No; I did not.

Alc.: Did I, then?

Soc.: Yes.

Alc.: How was that?

Soc.: Let me explain. Suppose I were to ask you which is the greater number, two or one; you would reply 'two'?

Alc.: I should.

Soc.: And by how much greater?

Alc.: By one.

Soc.: Which of us now says that two is more than one?

Alc.: I do.

Soc.: Did not I ask, and you answer the question?

Alc.: Yes.

Soc.: Then who is speaking? I who put the question, or you who answer me?

Alc.: I am.

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