The Republic · ¶5104

Knowledge (ἐπιστήμη, γιγνώσκειν), = knowledge of ideas, 6. 484; —nature of, 5. 477, 478; classed among faculties, ib. 477; 6. 511 E; 7. 533 E; —previous, to birth, 7. 518 C; —how far given by sense, ib. 529 [cp. Phaedo 75]; —should not be acquired under compulsion, ib. 536 E; —the foundation of courage, 4. 429 [cp. Laches 193, 197; Protag. 350, 360]; —knowledge and opinion, 5. 476–478; 6. 508, 510 A; 7. 534; knowledge and pleasure, 6. 505; knowledge and wisdom, 4. 428; —the highest knowledge, 6. 504; 7. 514 foll.; —unity of knowledge, 5. 479 [cp. Phaedo 101]; —the best knowledge, 10. 618; —knowledge of shadows, 6. 511 D; 7. 534 A: —love of knowledge characteristic of the Hellenes, 4. 435 E; peculiar to the rational element of the soul, 9. 581 B.

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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