[342a]
“Correct,” he said. “But how about this? Is
the medical art itself defective or faulty, or has any other art any need of
some virtue, quality, or excellence—as the eyes of vision, the
ears of hearing, and for this reason is there need of some art over them
that will consider and provide what is advantageous for these very
ends—does there exist in the art itself some defect and does each
art require another art to consider its advantage and is there need of still
another for the considering art and so on ad infinitum, or will the art look
out for its own advantage?
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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