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“But what of this? Do you
call medicine wage-earning, if a man when giving treatment earns
wages?” “No,” he said. “And did we
not agree that the benefit derived from each art is peculiar to
it?” “So be it,” he said. “Any
common or general benefit that all craftsmen receive, then, they obviously
derive from their common use of some further identical thing.”
“It seems so,” he said. “And we say that the
benefit of earning wages accrues to the craftsmen from their further
exercise of the wage-earning art.” He assented reluctantly.
“Then the benefit,
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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