Opening Epinomis — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
Well, stranger, here we are, duly assembled, all three of us as we agreed, you and me and Megillus here, to consider what account we should give of the sort of understanding which, according to us, once apprehended, gives a person the finest understanding a human being can possibly have. For although we maintain that we have, in general, described all matters concerned with lawgiving, we have neither investigated nor referred to the most important question: what exactly should a mere mortal learn in order to become wise? So we should now attempt to make good this omission. Indeed, we run the risk of failing to complete the objective of all our endeavours, which was to clarify everything from beginning to end. Well said, Clinias. I believe the argument you're about to hear is unusual, and also, in a sense, not so strange at all. Indeed, many people, based upon their experience of life, …
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