ABSTRACT
In the last three chapters I have been criticising Plato’s views on the relation between desire and goodness, and I now wish to turn to the other side of his position, the relation between knowledge and goodness. In Plato’s mind, of course, these two sides to his position are closely related, but even if one jettisons the thesis about desire and goodness, it could still be that in some preferred sense knowledge is tied to functional excellence. This is not a view that has any great attraction for a twentieth-century reader, but as there are, I think, points of interest about it I propose to pursue it a little further.
