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Quotation from Gorgias by Plato
“if the physician and the cook had to enter into a competition in which children were the judges, or men who had no more sense than children, as to which of them best understands the goodness or badness of food, the physician would be starved to death”
Gorgias, 464d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates illustrates the difference between an art that aims at the good and a flattery that aims at pleasure.
Citation: "if the physician and the cook had to enter into a competition in which children were the judges, or men who had no more sense than children, as to which of them best understands the goodness or badness of food, the physician would be starved to death" — Plato, Gorgias, 464d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-gorgias-q2)
