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For Plato, "knowledge is virtue" because:
{ 1 } - we can have knowledge without knowing the good.
{ 2 } - we cannot know love without loving.
{ 3 } - we can do the good without knowing it.
{ 4 } - we can know the good without doing it.
{ 5 } - participation is not love.
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For Plato, "knowledge is virtue" because:
{ 1 } - we can have knowledge without knowing the good.
{ 2 } - we cannot know love without loving.
{ 3 } - we can do the good without knowing it.
{ 4 } - we can know the good without doing it.
{ 5 } - participation is not love.
For Socrates and Plato, the good, sharing, communication, is somehow known in all
knowledge.
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For Plato, "knowledge is virtue" because:
{ 1 } - we can have knowledge without knowing the good.
{ 2 } - we cannot know love without loving.
{ 3 } - we can do the good without knowing it.
{ 4 } - we can know the good without doing it.
{ 5 } - participation is not love.
"Knowledge is virtue" can be translated: "Knowing the good is doing the good," or knowing sharing is sharing." Love is a synonym for sharing or communication in its deepest sense, that is, unity with another self.
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For Plato, "knowledge is virtue" because:
{ 1 } - we can have knowledge without knowing the good.
{ 2 } - we cannot know love without loving.
{ 3 } - we can do the good without knowing it.
{ 4 } - we can know the good without doing it.
{ 5 } - participation is not love.
For Socrates and Plato, doing the good, or sharing, is the essence and source of
all knowledge.
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4 is wrong. Please try again.
For Plato, "knowledge is virtue" because:
{ 1 } - we can have knowledge without knowing the good.
{ 2 } - we cannot know love without loving.
{ 3 } - we can do the good without knowing it.
{ 4 } - we can know the good without doing it.
{ 5 } - participation is not love.
The good is actual sharing, and that cannot be known without action.
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For Plato, "knowledge is virtue" because:
{ 1 } - we can have knowledge without knowing the good.
{ 2 } - we cannot know love without loving.
{ 3 } - we can do the good without knowing it.
{ 4 } - we can know the good without doing it.
{ 5 } - participation is not love.
"Participation," literally "taking part," is a synonym for sharing. Knowledge is virtue for Socrates and Plato because all knowledge is knowledge to the degree that it participates in sharing, and sharing is doing the good or love.
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