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Quotation from Protagoras by Plato
“just as if knowledge were a slave, and might be dragged about anyhow”
Protagoras, Stephanus 352c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates states the popular view that knowledge can be overpowered by anger, pleasure, pain, love or fear, the view his argument sets out to refute.
Citation: "just as if knowledge were a slave, and might be dragged about anyhow" — Plato, Protagoras, Stephanus 352c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-protagoras-q6)
