Full Idea
Socrates: Are good people any different from wise ones? No, they aren't.
Gist of Idea
Good people are no different from wise ones
Source
Plato (Cratylus [c.377 BCE], 398b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.116
A Reaction
This is Socrates's 'intellectualism', his view that being good is entirely a matter of reason and knowledge, and not a matter of habit or emotion. Do we still accept the traditional assumption that wise people are thereby morally good?