[341e]
“What do you mean by that question?” “Just
as if,” I said, “you should ask me whether it is enough
for the body to be the body or whether it stands in need of something else,
I would reply, 'By all means it stands in need. That is the reason why the
art of medicine has now been invented, because the body is defective and
such defect is unsatisfactory. To provide for this, then, what is
advantageous, that is the end for which the art was devised.' Do you think
that would be a correct answer, or not?”
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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