Note 112 — Chapter XXXII · PHILEBUS.
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Compare Plato, Republic, vi. p. 505 D (referred to in a previous note); also Aristotel. Ethic. Nikom. i. 3, 1095, b. 30; i. 8, 1099, a. 1.
Respecting the value of Intelligence or Cognition, when the end towards which it is to be exercised is undetermined, see the dialogue between Sokrates and Kleinias — Plato, Euthydêm. pp. 289-292 B-E.
Aristotle, in the Nikomach. Ethic. (i. 4, 1096, b. 10), makes a distinction between — 1. τὰ καθ’ αὑτὰ διωκόμενα καὶ ἀγαπώμενα — 2. τὰ ποιητικὰ τούτων ἢ φυλακτικὰ ἢ τῶν ἐναντίων κωλυτικά: and Plato himself makes the same distinction at the beginning of the second book of the Republic. But though it is convenient to draw attention to this distinction, for the clear understanding of the subject, you cannot ask with propriety which of the two lots is most valuable. The value of the two is equal: the one cannot be had without the other.