A strain of Greek philosophy holds that vice and self-destructive behavior stem from ignorance. “No one who knows or believes there is something else better than what he is doing, something possible, will go on doing what he had been doing when he could be doing what is better,” says Socrates in Plato’s “Protagoras.”
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/special-series/human-behavior-self-destruction.html