Fear is a good example. Socrates sometimes teaches that courage is a kind of knowledge and that cowardice is a form of ignorance. This sounds strange at first because courage and cowardice involve fear, and fear seems to be a feeling or emotion rather than a matter of knowledge. But when people fear what they should fear, we don’t call them cowards. Cowardice is when people fear what isn’t worth fearing. The onlooker who sees the cowardice understands that there’s nothing to be afraid of. The person in the grip of the cowardice doesn’t see this. True, the onlooker and the coward feel different
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