[342b]
Or is it a
fact that it needs neither itself nor another art to consider its advantage
and provide against its deficiency? For there is no defect or error at all
that dwells in any art. Nor does it befit an art to seek the advantage of
anything else than that of its object. But the art itself is free from all
harm and admixture of evil, and is right so long as each art is precisely
and entirely that which it is. And consider the matter in that precise way
of speaking. Is it so or not?” “It appears to be
so,” he said. “Then medicine,” said I,
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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