Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 375b

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[375b] or that which does so involuntarily?

Hippias
That which does so voluntarily.

Socrates
Then that is the better mind for the purpose of archery?

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
Is, then, the mind also which errs involuntarily worse than that which errs voluntarily?

Hippias
Yes, in the case of archery.

Socrates
And how is it in the art of medicine? Is not the mind which does harm to the patients' bodies voluntarily the more scientific?

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
In this art, then, this mind is better than the other.

Hippias
It is better.

Socrates
Well now, the more musical, whether with lyre or with flute,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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