...comment that people do evil while fully aware of the good. "There are many who know virtue," she argues. "We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement" (Hippolylus 378-80). Though put into Phaedra's mouth, the words are widely taken as Euripides' refutation...

...tragedy. Phaedra's weakness is one of will. She fails to control her naturally amorous disposition: We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we...and others value some other pleasure above virtue, Phaedra says (11. 380-3);' and it soon becomes clear that Phaedra values some other pleasure above...

...here the words of Phaedra as she contemplates the love that she feels for her stepson Hippolytus: 96 We know the good; we apprehend it clearly, But we can't bring it to achievement (1l. 380-1) Medea's words amount to a chillingly calm expression of clear self-knowledge. She is alarmingly...

...pondered on the causes of life's shipwreck. / I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality / would warrant. There are many who know virtue. / We...it clearly. / But we can't bring it to achievement" (375-81, trans. D. Grene). 51. Pigeaud (1976, 8-9) links knowledge of the self to woman's experience...

...back in the fourth century BC, embraced the principle, To know the good is to do the good. We know (he good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring...betrayed by their own laziness, and others value some pleasure above virtue. Her words state the problem with great clarity. It seems logical to think that...

...was able. EUCLID c.300 BC 3417 Elementa A line is length without breadth. EURIPIDES c.485-406 BC 3418 rth 3419 Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails. 3420 I hate the philosopher who...

...them. The historian Arnold Toynbee studied twenty-one of them, and came away with hope for the future. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we...and others value some other pleasure above virtue. Nothing changes, and maybe that's good. "Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world,...

...Zoroaster "Look round the habitable world: how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue it?" Juvenal "We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement." — Euripides "Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!" Tennyson "Many foxes...

...pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We...and others value some other pleasure above virtue. . . . The proverb runs, "There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course,...

...is based on tackling the educational quandary voiced more than two millennia ago by Euripides that "we know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement," through offering a collection of suggestions toward operationalizing education: • We need to develop...