soul and body; they therefore conclude that a man's self is "nothing other than his soul" (130a-c).

Socrates then considers how one should obtain knowledge of the soul (132c-133c). He begins by asking how they would solve the puzzle if, instead of "know thyself", the inscription at Delphi had read "see thyself". He observes that the surface of an eye is reflective, and that an eye is therefore able to see itself by looking into another eye - specifically, into the pupil, that part of an eye "in which the good activity of an eye actually